COOPERATIVE GEAIX MAEKETIXG. 
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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 AYilliam is owned by individual growers, but it is not 
large. Plowever, 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 wiU 
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 countv under one management. The ad- 
FiG. .3. — Typical farmers' elevator of the local 
single-unit type found in middle-western section 
of the United States. 
