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This " merger " is unique in that the objections to a 

 monopoly cannot be urged against it. There is no 

 / watered stock. With proxy voting eliminated no group 

 of men can gain control of the company's affairs. Stock 

 holdings by individuals is limited to $2,000 on a capital- 

 ization of five million and no man can grow rich by 

 speculation with assets. Instead of exploiting the 

 public the aim is service reduction of prices instead 

 of inflation. 



United Grain Growers, Limited, have begun their first 

 year's business as an amalgamated farmers' concern, 

 all the final details having been settled to the entire 

 satisfaction of the farmers interested. 



The fact that the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' 

 executives did not decide to amalgamate their co- 

 operative marketing machinery with that of the others 

 just now must not be misconstrued as a lack of har- 

 mony among the leaders of these powerful institutions. 

 For they are meeting constantly in their inter-provin- 

 cial relations, for mutual business advantages and in 

 the broader educational aspects of the entire Movement. 

 It will be seen that with such complete and solid 

 business resources established in the three Prairie 

 Provinces the organized farmers have been in a position 

 to widen their field of influence and to carry on much 

 propaganda work. The Movement has spread steadily 

 until it embraces organization in other than prairie 

 provinces. There seems to be a tendency among the 

 entire agricultural population of Canada to organize 

 and co-operate; so that it is not impossible for Cana- 

 dian farmers in time to have a unity of organization in 

 every province of the Dominion. 



r~ "in Ontario for many years there have been various 

 \ farmers clubs, associations or granges. Until 1914 



