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elevators now exceed 300. The figures for the season 

 of 1915-16 show a total of more than 39,000,000 bushels 

 of grain handled with an additional 4,109,000 bushels 

 shipped over the loading platforms. Without deduct- 

 ing war-tax the total profit earned by the Saskatchewan 

 company within the year was in the neighborhood of 

 three-quarters of a million dollars. The Saskatchewan 

 Co-Operative Elevator Company in 1916 began building 

 its own terminal elevator at Port Arthur with a 

 capacity of 2,500,000 bushels. By this time there were 

 18,000 shareholders with a subscribed capital of 

 12,358,900, of which f 876,000 was paid up. 



In these later years a remarkable development is 

 recorded also by the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' 

 Association until it is by far the largest and best 

 organized secular body in the province with over 1,300 

 Locals and a membership exceeding 28,000. 



The Secretary of the Association J. B. Musselman, 

 himself a farmer has done much hard work in office 

 and looks forward to the time when the Locals will 

 own their own breeding stock, assemble and fatten their 

 own poultry, handle and ship their eggs, operate their 

 own co-operative laundries and bakeries, kill and cure 

 meat in co-operative butcher-shops for their own use 

 have meeting places, rest rooms, town offices, libraries, 

 moving-pictures and phonographs with which to enter- 

 tain and inform themselves. To stand with a hand on 

 the hilt of such a dream is to visualize a revolution in 

 farm and community life such a revolution as would 

 switch much attraction from city to country. 



Whatever the future may hold in store, the fact 

 remains that already much valuable legislation has 

 been secured from the Government of Saskatchewan 

 by the farmers. Perhaps in no other province are the 



