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tered the live-stock business and does not deal in machinery 

 or supplies. The Saskatchewan Grain Growers Associa- 

 tion, through its central office at Regina, has undertaken 

 trading activities in farm implements and other farm 

 needs. 



Shortly after the Grain Growers Grain Company ''^ be- 

 gan its grain business in 1906, it was found that the or- 

 ganized farmers of the Prairie Provinces needed a pub- 

 lication that would be free to speak out frankly on ques- 

 tions in which the farmers were interested. The Grain 

 Growers Guide was therefore established for this pur- 

 pose; and it began its issues at Winnipeg in 1908. It is 

 the official organ of the associations in each of the three 

 provinces, and now has a circulation of 51,000 copies 

 per week — the largest circulation of any farm paper in 

 the West. 



The farmers' trading companies control over 600 coun- 

 try elevators and also have at their disposal immense stor- 

 age space in terminal elevators at Port William and Port 

 Arthur. United Grain Growers Limited own a house 

 at Port Arthur with a capacity of 600,000 bushels, and 

 have also leased from the Canadian Pacific Eailway Com- 

 pany at Port William a terminal elevator that holds 

 2,500,000 bushels. The Saskatchewan Co-operative Ele- 

 vator Company has a 2,500, 000-bushel elevator at Port 

 Arthur, so that the total storage capacity of the farmers' 



75 The Grain Growers Grain Company was the first of the farmers' 

 trading companies and was organized in 1906 without Government 

 aid. It was interprovincial in character. In 1913, The Alberta 

 Farmers Co-operative Elevator Company was organized for the prov- 

 ince of Alberta with Government aid. In 1917, the Grain Growers 

 Grain Company and the Alberta Farmers' Co-operative Elevator Com- 

 pany amalgamated their interests, so as to form United Grain Grow- 

 ers Limited. The Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company was 

 organized in 1911 on a strictly provincial basis and received Gov- 

 ernment assistance. 



