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cattle and lashions of grass--Broncho team and new high-painted wagon--No
family--Dash churn--Lucky to have a wife--Some hens--Sod-breaking plough,
long snout, breaks odd fields twixt bluffs--Coal-black loam,
strong--Wheat and oats, wonderful early growth--Drouth first year--Second
year, pole fences, more fields, and wet season--More crops but half
spoiled by wet--Sacks on trail to cars, toiling across prairie to
elevator--Smudge of train, bit of a town and a tank--No cars to load
grain--Must sell to elevator--Monopoly--Low price--Grading wheat to No. 2
Northern--55 cents, used to be 40--Lien note to pay on wagon and
binder--Goes to indignation meeting--Lots of that--Farmer
revolutionaries--Want Gov't. to pass acts compelling Rys. to supply
farmers cars to break low-price monopoly of elevators--Act passed, but
roads in league with elevators--Same old trouble--Rise of radical
leaders--Organization of farmers into group to fight interests--Helots on
prairies--Helpless unless organized--Only partial relief from Gov't.--Two
new provinces in 1905--Grits make great splash, promising Utopia along
with newer trunk lines and big towns, etc.--Farmer grins, goes on
organizing, in each province association of grain growers (G.G.)--Every
few towns some fiery evangel--Great on conventions, regular convenanters,
old style--Schools of debate and Utopian legislation--Gov'ts. wear
goggles and organize elections--Farmer organizes group ideas, to oppose
old line politics--Say Eastern old parties effete in West--Townsmen
league with farmers, common interest; low price wheat means lean
purchases and laggard towns--By this time young man Crerar in Wpg., taken
from managing small elevator company to be general manager G.G. Grain
Co.--Co-op. movement develops in all associations, for buying and
selling--G.G.G. Co. give farmer equal rights with city man in speculation
on what farmer grows--Horn into Grain Exchange, little office--Under
Crerar Co. grows to much the biggest corporation in Exchange; whole
ground floor offices of G.G.G. Co. which as commercial organization
focuses the buying and selling end of whole agrarian movement--Head of
this, naturally chief of movement--All remedial and legislative
programmes merged in economics of G.G.G. Co.--Crerar wiry, quiet
executive, now fuse plug to a real agrarian party with a programme which
through Canadian Council of Agriculture, members from all over Canada,
constitutes itself a parliament of fa