12 BULLETIN 937, U. S. DEPAETMEXT 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 ; L^nited 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 weeldy publication devoted especially to agri- 
cultural interests in Canada. The L^nited 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 L%ited 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 iiugust 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 suppl}^ 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- 
