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in this year of " free for all " methods, the Grain 

 Growers' Grain Company handled about fifteen per 

 eent. 



When the end of the season brought the figures to a 

 final total it was found that the fArmera* 



had handled w&11 over sixteen million bushels of 

 farmers' grain. This was an increase over the pre- 

 ceding year of nearly nine million bushels, or 114 per 

 i / cent. It was nearly one and one-half million bushels 

 greater than all the previous years of operation and 

 represented one-eighth of all the grain inspected during 

 the year in Western Canada. 



