Alberta Wheat Pool

The Alberta Wheat Pool was the first of Canada's wheat farmer co-operatives in 1923.

Famous quotes containing the words wheat and/or pool:

    “The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1934)