X CONTENTS 



SECTION PAGE 



ni The Great Wheat Funnel 49 



IV The Hudson Bay Railway 51 



V The Shipment of Bulk Wheat through the 



Panama Canal 52 



VI Elevators 53 



VII The Loading Platform 54 



VIII The Old Flat Warehouse 55 



IX The Country Elevator 56 



X Box-Cars 57 



XI Terminal Elevators 60 



XII Lake Steamers 65 



XIII The Lake Shippers' Clearance Association . . 66 



XIV The Canada Grain Act 68 



XV The Sample Market 69 



XVI The Grades of Grain 70 



^ XVII The Grading of Grain 75 



XVIII Inspection at Terminal Elevators 93 



XIX Eeinspection 96 



XX Weighing Wheat 98 



XXI Warehouse Receipts, Registration, and Stock- 

 taking 100 



XXII The Dominion Grain Research Laboratory . . 102 



XXIII The Winnipeg Grain Exchange 105 



XXIV The Geographical Position of the Grain Ex- 



change 108 



XXV The Grain Exchange Clearing House . . . 109 



_XXVI The Wheat Pit 116 



XXVII The Effect of the War on the Grain Trade . . 118 



XXVin Financing the Crop Movement 130 



XXIX The Flour Mills of Western Canada . . . .134 



XXX Recent Improvements in the Conditions of Farm 



Life 138 



XXXI The Agrarian Movement 141 



CHAPTER ni 



The Discovery and Introduction of Marquis Wheat 



I Introduction 144 



II Dr. William Saunders and His Assistants . . 144 

 III The Selection of Marquis by Dr. Charles E. 



Saunders 151 



