CONTENTS 



Preface vii 



CHAPTER I 



The Early History of Wheat-Growing in Manitoba 



SECTION PAGE 



I The First Wheat Crops in Western Canada . . 1 



II Troubles with the North- West Company . . 4 



III Visit of Lord Selkirk . 8 



IV The First Farms 9 



V The Plague of Grasshoppers 10 



VI New Seed-Wheat from the United States . . 12 



VII The Hour-Glass 14 



VIII The Census of 1822 16 



IX Milling Operations 16 



X The Mice 18 



XI The Great Flood 18 



XII Prosperity in 1820 20 



XIII The Eed River Flour 21 



XIV Windmills 24 



XV The Experimental Farms 24 



XVI The Bloody Flux 26 



XVII The Census of 1849 27 



XVIII Another Plague of Grasshoppers 28 



XIX State of the Settlement in 1870 29 



XX Effect of the Revolution in the Milling Industry 30 



XXI The St. Paul Railway 32 



XXII The Canadian Pacific Railway 33 



CHAPTER II 



Wheat in Western Canada 



I Some Crop Statistics 35 



II Wheat Growing 41 



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