6 BULLETIN 937, U. .S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The principal reason why the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Asso- 
ciation is engaged in commercial activity is that the Saskatchewan 
Cooperative Elevator Co. deemed it wise to confine its activities 
strictly to a grain business and there was a demand for certain sup- 
]3lies usually handled in connection with elevators. The trading 
department of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association was 
created to satisfy this demand. 
The several provincial associations concern themselves with mat- 
ters of local interest and with legislation to be had through the pro- 
vincial governments, while the Canadian Council of Agriculture is 
concerned with matters of national scope. The latter is able to sift 
and harmonize the 
various resolutions 
which come to it for 
action from the con- 
ventions of the pro- 
vincial associations. 
It will not be prac- 
ticable in this bulletin 
to discuss the various 
activities of these or- 
ganizations nor to de- 
scribe them in detail. They are financed by membership dues and 
in the past have also received large grants from the earnings of the 
principal farmers' trading companies, such as the United Grain 
Growers and the Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Co. Each pro- 
vincial association is composed of locals which have as their center 
the local shipping station or perhaps the country schoolhouse. These 
associations are regarded as the power back of everything that has 
been accomplished by the grain growers in Canada in the matter of 
establishing their cooperative marketing and trading organizations. 
Fig. 1. 
-View of loading platform and country grain 
elevators in Saskatchewan, Canada. 
EXAMPLES OF MARKETING ORGANIZATIONS IN CANADA. 
The Canadian grain growers first entered upon the commercial 
handling of their grain in 1906, when the Grain Growers' Grain Co. 
was established at Winnipeg. For several years this compan}^ 
confined its activities to an exclusive grain commission business, 
handling the grain of its members in much the same manner as any 
other commission firm. From the beginning it had a seat on the 
Winnipeg Grain Exchange and received shijoments from member and 
nonmember growers in the three prairie Provinces. The rules 
of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange made it impossible for this com- 
pany to prorate its earnings on the basis of patronage furnished, and 
while it was at one time suspended because of a supposedly avowed 
