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Elevators in several instances approached tke Grain 

 Growers and sought their management. 



The handling of co-operative supplies at elevator 

 points began in 1913-14. Flour houses were erected 

 where prices were out of proportion and at other places 

 the elevator agents began to arrange for carload ship- 

 ments and proper distribution of coal among the 

 farmers at a saving of from two to three dollars per ton. 



These co-operative lines at elevator points soon were 

 enlarged with much success. In addition to the 

 elevators leased from the Manitoba Government the 

 Grain Growers' Grain Company bought outright, 

 erected or leased sixty elevators of its own. 



Those who were watching all this steadily grew more 

 restive. The Farmers' Movement in the West was fast 

 becoming a subject of bitter debate. 



"When farmers advance to the last furrow of 

 plowed land on the farm they breast the fence which 

 skirts the Public Highway," argued many Men of 

 Business. " They are climbing over the fence !" 



But the organized farmers were not inclined to 

 recognize fences in restriction of honest competition. 

 They believed they were on the Open Range and held 

 unswervingly on their way. 



