12 BULLETIN 93*7. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Farmers' Cooperative Elevator Co. is being maintained at Calgary, 

 Alberta, as western division, and through it is administered all of 

 the business affecting the local elevators in Alberta, while the Win- 

 nipeg office has direct contact with the elevators in Manitoba and 

 Saskatchewan. 



While the Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Co. has consist- 

 ently adhered to its policy of handling grain exclusively, the United 

 Grain Growers, Ltd., has engaged in numerous other operations. 

 In addition to operating terminal elevators at Fort William and 

 Port Arthur, Ontario, and conducting departments for handling 

 farm supplies of all kinds and for live stock, it controls a number 

 of subsidiary corporations. Among these may be mentioned the 

 Grain Growers' Export Company, Inc., of New York; the .Grain 

 Growers' Export Co., Ltd., of Canada; Public Press, Ltd., Win- 

 nipeg ; the Grain Growers' Guide, Winnipeg ; United Grain Growers' 

 Securities Co., Ltd., Calgary; United Grain Growers (British 

 Columbia), Ltd., Vancouver; United Grain Growers' Sawmills, 

 Ltd., Hutton Mills, British Columbia. The first two companies 

 were organized to enable the parent organization to conduct to 

 better advantage the export business, which was begun as early as 

 1910. Through the Public Press, Ltd., and the Grain Growers' 

 Guide, Ltd., is carried on the business of publishing the Grain 

 Growers' Guide, a weekly publication devoted especially to agri- 

 cultural interests in Canada. The United Grain Growers' Securities 

 Co., Ltd., is engaged in conducting a general insurance business 

 and a land department. The United Grain Growers (British Co- 

 lumbia) was formed for the purpose of furnishing a western outlet 

 for grain for feed purposes, and the United Grain Growers' Saw- 

 mills, Ltd., was intended to provide manufactured products from 

 a timber tract purchased in British Columbia in 1912. All of the 

 subsidiary companies are owned and controlled absolutely by the 

 United Grain Growers, Ltd., and the affairs of each are adminis- 

 tered by the directors of the controlling company. 



The annual report of the United Grain Growers, Ltd., for the 

 year ending August 31, 1919, indicates a volume of business in farm 

 supplies of $6,180,359. Among the items handled are flour and feed, 

 coal, hay, posts, twine, wire and bale ties, salt, fruit and vegetables, 

 lumber and builders' supplies, machinery and supply parts, sacks, 

 trucks, oils, and miscellaneous articles. During the year the com- 

 pany handled 22,203,007 bushels of all kinds of grain, which is con- 

 siderably less than it has handled in former years. The live-stock 

 department handled a total of 5,257 cars. 



TERMINAL ELEVATORS. 



Both the United Grain Growers, Ltd., and the Saskatchewan 

 Cooperative Elevator Co., Ltd., have public and private terminal ele- 



