CHAPTER XX 



WHAT HAPPENED IN ALBERTA 



Beyond the fields we plough are others waiting, 



The fallows of the ages all unknown. 

 Beyond the little harvests we are reaping 



Are wider, grander harvests to be grown. 



Gerald J. Lively. 



OUT in the great Range Country all this time the 

 United Farmers were lickety-loping along the 

 trail of difficulties that carried their own special 

 brand. The round-up revealed increasing opportunities 

 for service and one by one their problems were cut out 

 from the general herd, roped, tied and duly attended to 

 for the Improvement of conditions in Alberta. Here 

 and there a difficulty persisted in breaking away and 

 running about bawling; but even these finally were 

 coralled. 



Along with the Grain Growers of Manitoba and 

 Saskatchewan the United Farmers of Alberta had 

 campaigned consistently for government ownership of 

 elevators, both provincial and terminal. They had 

 received assurance from Premier Rutherford that if a 

 satisfactory scheme could be evolved, the Provincial 

 Government was prepared to carry out the establish- 

 ment of a line of internal elevators in Alberta. It 

 looked as if all that remained to be done was to follow 

 the lead of Manitoba or Saskatchewan. 



But on careful consideration neither of the plans 

 followed in the other two provinces appeared to fit the 



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