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farmerSj working men and merchants. On the sale 

 of this they were to receive a commission which 

 would, they expected, be enough to cover the expense of 

 placing the stock. As the business expanded the Com- 

 pany would be assured of an extended line of credit as 

 it was needed. 



And the business certainly was expanding. Although 

 the prospects for the new crop were not as bright as 

 they had been the year before, a substantial increase in 

 the amount of grain they would handle owing to the 

 increase in the number of shareholders was antici- 

 pated by the management. They were not prepared, 

 however, for the heavy volume that poured in upon 

 them when the crop began to move ; it was double that 

 of their first season and the office staff was hard pressed 

 to keep pace with the rising work. There now seemed 

 no reason to believe that the success of the farmers' 

 venture was any longer in doubt so far as the commer- 

 cial side of it was concerned. 



But the President and directors had in mind a much 

 broader objective. It was not enough that the farmer 

 should receive a few more cents per bushel for his grain. 



^_We must bear clearly in mind/' warned T. A. 

 Crerar, " that there are still those interests who 

 would delight in nothing more than in our failure and 

 destruction. A great many improvements require yet 

 to be made in our system of handling grainD The 

 struggle for the bringing about of those reforms is not 

 by any means accomplished. As a great class of 

 farmers, composing the most important factor in the 

 progress and development of our country, we must 

 learn the lesson that we must organize and work 

 together to secure those legislative and economic 

 reforms necessary to well-being. In the day of our 



