UNITED GRAIN GROWERS 



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hands of the federal courts, and its leaders were convicted of 

 criminal practices and imprisoned. 



United Grain Growers. The largest example of cooperation 

 among farmers in North America is that of the grain growers of 

 western Canada. The United Grain Growers, as their company is 

 called, has an annual turnover of well over a hundred million 

 dollars. This company, like all successful cooperatives, was the 

 child of necessity. Beginning in 1906 under farmer leadership, 



FIG. 27. Terminal elevator, 2,500,000 bushels capacity. Operated by United Grain 

 Growers at Fort William, on Lake Superior. 



purely as a farmers' economic movement for the better and cheaper 

 handling of western grain, the company has now developed several 

 collateral lines of activity. The business of the Company, briefly 

 stated, is now as follows: (1) Grain commission department for 

 selling the grain; (2) Country elevator department which operated 

 343 country grain elevators (Fig. 26), 231 flour warehouses, and 

 181 coal sheds; (3) Livestock department, for selling livestock: 

 (4) Terminal elevator department, operating both owned and 

 leased terminal elevators and a hospital elevator '(Fig. 27) ; (5) 

 Cooperative supply department, for buying farm machinery and 

 other supplies (Figs. 28 and 29) ; (6) Export company, for hand- 



