COOPERATIVE GRAIN MARKETING. 



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No figures are available to show what proportion of the grain re- 

 ceived into public storage in the large terminal elevators at Port 

 Arthur and Fort William is owned by individual growers, but it is not 

 large. However, it will be seen that in the case of the farmers' com- 

 panies any public storage business conducted for the members is re- 

 flected in earnings in which the members have a direct interest. In 

 addition to the direct financial benefits which accrue to the grain 

 growers in Canada from 

 the operation by farmers' 

 companies of terminal ele- 

 vators, certain indirect 

 benefits are also claimed as 

 the result of the restrain- 

 ing influence of farmers' 

 competition on others en- 

 gaged in the terminal ele- 

 vator business. 



EXAMPLES OF FARMERS' 

 ORGANIZATIONS IN THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



LOCAL FARMERS' ELEVATORS. 



By far the most of the 

 farmers' elevators in the 

 United States are of the 

 single-unit type. The 

 growers surrounding a 

 shipping point will raise 

 the necessary capital to 

 build or buy an elevator. A 

 corporation will be formed, 

 a manager hired, and the 

 business of buying and selling grain will be conducted independently 

 of any other farmers' elevator or marketing organization. A 

 farmers' elevator at one point may be a tremendous success, while at 

 the next station one will fail miserably. In some cases, it is true, 

 several elevators have been combined under one management, and not 

 infrequently a farmers' elevator company located at one point will 

 operate elevators at one or more neighboring points. In Kansas and 

 possibly several other States organizations have been established on 

 what is called the county-unit plan, the idea being to place all the 

 farmers' elevators within a county under one management. The ad- 



PiG. 3. — Typical farmers' elevator of the local 

 single-unit type found in middle'-western section 

 of the United States. 



