Deep Furrows

Demus! you'll f

wretch and a vil

stop

share of tacks in the boots and crumbs in bed! But every time Fate knocked him down he just picked himself up again. Always he got up and went at it once mo

County, Ontario, it was advisable for the eldest son to work out as a farm boy. He was thirteen years old when he first hired out to a farmer

sheep down in the back pasture? Well, tell you what we'll do. Over at Beaverton I've got an uncle who's a tailor. I can give you a sui

an as a lumberjack till he was a chunk of whalebone in a red flannel shirt and corked boots and could pull the whiskers out of a wild-cat! With varying success h

; for he was a farmer himself-up in the Swan River Valley-and he was a delegate from the Swan River Grain Growers' Association. The idea of forming a farmers' commission company for handling the

ough to listen; for they had suffered up there from the evils at which the new movement was aiming. He fou

impertinent questions, J. W. Robson, a Swan River farmer who was at that time a Conservative Member of the Manitoba Legislature, was giving his services free as a speaker on behalf of the proposed company; John Kennedy was known to be a political supporter of J. W. Robson. One and

g their charter. Taking the first train, he found on his arrival at Winnipeg that Francis Graham and W. A. Robinson, the two committeemen who met him, had not yet notified E. A. Partridge. A wire was de

any with a capital of $250,000 could not be less than $100 each. Their solicitor tried in vain to induce the De

nnedy finally. "This discussion's not getting us anywhere a

John. We might as wel

ht down his big fist on the table with a thump. "

refused to stop arguing about it till at last he and John Spencer were delegated to see the Manitoba authorities. In the course of a few days the arrangements for

with a provisional directorate and as five members of the original committee were in Winnipeg and available for quick action, it was decided to go ahead as it would be impossible to hold a

es classed with the "Sunflower Belles" and "Katzenjammer Castle" and it was only after the payment of fifty dollars that permission was granted for the erection of the tent. Here to the accompaniment of a raucous medley of sounds-the beating of tom-toms, the ballyho

ompany which was about to try its wings overlooked the fact that nothing could be more foolhardy than for farmers like themselves, direct from the green pastures, to attempt the plunge they were about to take without proper guidance as to the depth of the water and the set of the currents. They

hing him, Mr. Coulter did not become excited over the prospect of managing a farmers' company in the grain business; even he was not inclined to take too seriously the effort of the farmers to do their own trading. How long would the farmers stand behind the company in the face of the competition that would be brough

en disposed of with ten per cent. paid up and from the $2,500 thus realized the expenses of organization had to be met, the charter paid for

d finance our first business operations," said John S

e of the boys out at Sintaluta will go security for the fifteen hundred. Thank heaven, these fellows down here think we're a hilarious joke! Th

f E. A. Partridge's friends[2] at once responded by going t

oys," cried the President proudly when the ba

were established with t

m had been rented on t

circulars sent broadc

in, the wheels

uld stand behind the big idea that was now put to the test. Then came the bill of lading for the first carload of grain consigned to the new company, followed quickly by the second, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth-two at a time, three, ten, fifteen per

ccommodation was obtained in the Henderson Block. At

y were talking about E. A. Partridge and they were not laughing

e paper-knife with which he had sliced

r us already!

st the honor and "diginity" of that institution and of violating its rules. A short time before the young company had issued a circular setting forth their intention of dividing co-operatively whatever profits were e

on with the shipper," claimed the Exchang

been distributed co-operatively by the Grain Growers' Grain Company, go ahead. Nor have I sinned against your 'diginity'!" he added, sarca

the Exchange and forthwith, on October 25th, notice was posted to all Exchange members

s for the final count. Membership in the Exchange was absolutely imperative if the farmers were to be in a position to sell grain to exporters; they were

arding distribution of profits co-operatively; the only thing they've got to go on is that cir

mbers, the new company was in a quandary to dispose of the incoming grain on a falling market. The only thing they could do was to wait until they had sufficient of any grade to make a shipment of from 8,000 to 10,000 bushels of that gra

ir bills of lading and a prompt remittance of the balance when the Inspection Certificate and Outturn were in the hands of the Company. Wi

om the crisis which was shaping. It was quite patent that it would have been suicide for the you

sident and Vice-Presid

ir case in full before

ond Roblin) was very mu

ct

ain dealers," he declared emphatically. "We cannot allow them to boycott a company

y or of losing their Provincial charter. In the meantime, however, this did not obtain restoration of trading privileges, without wh

ger; but even he could not go on forever making advances on consigned grain and there was some suspicion that letters were reaching the

manager called on the Execu

t call, gentlemen." He handed a letter to the President. "As you see, I am instructed to close out your account at once unless further secur

ing will straighten out, Mr. Machaffie. We're getting the business. You know tha

shook his h

t do you know what your o

ifty-six thousand do

ary-Tr

act

are we

's not overstepping the rules of the Exchange. I may be able to carry you along for a short time if you three gentlemen, the Executive of your company, will giv

that, Kenned

ot to do it,"

e it," agr

decided Partridge, dip

s signed

osed upon the bank manager. "I appreciate you two fellows signing that thing." He got

we're not going to smash

re on the anxious seat from morning till night. It had got down now to a question of meeting each day's events as they came and frequently the lights blazed in the little office t

ng and the profits which might have been rolled up had things been different; the real worry was to keep going at any cost. For, as the bank manager had intimated, the whole thing was just hard luck rather than any unsoundness in the

perative idea in connection with profits was formally dropped by the Grain Growers' Grain Company. This had been done at a directors' meeting on December 22nd (1906), when a resolution had been passed, cancelling the proposal contained in the objectionable circular.[3] But although the Exchange had been notified

disposed of without delay. With prices going down and navigation on the point of closing, the best hopes of the management became centred in getting a big shipment away to

side of forty-eight hours-we're goners, boys! All that those fellows over at the Exchange have got to do is to shove down the market thirty points and our name is mud! The loss to the farmers who'v

atively down the window-pane. It

ought it to take to load up this w

seventeen h

And she's not away yet! What d'you suppose that means?" he snap

ischief are yo

. P. Walsh gets out of that harbor with that wheat of ou

telegram reached

Buffalo. Three hundred and ten thous

Appendix

Appendix

rmed at a meeting of the shar