WHEAT IN WESTERN CANADA 



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room. The contents of the wheat hexes are emptied into a 

 sack so that they are all mixed together. This mixed 

 grain, made up of all grades, is then sold by the Govern- 

 ment and the proceeds go toward paying the expenses 

 of the Grain Inspection Department. The grade at which 

 the mixed grain is usually sold is N'o. 3 K'orthern. Any 

 one may bid for the grain who wishes. A considerable 

 proportion of it is disposed of to a local milling company 

 who fetch so much away each day. 



The large amount of work which falls to the Western 

 Grain Inspection Division is shown by the following sta- 

 tistics.^^ 



Number of Cars Inspected in the Crop Tear 1916-17 



From the above Table the dominating position of Win- 

 nipeg as a center of grain inspection may be readily per- 

 ceived. For the crop year 1916-17, 147,773 cars of 

 wheat out of a total of 167,018 were inspected in that city. 

 During the busy season as many ^s 2,000 oars are often 

 graded by the Winnipeg inspectors every day. 



31 The statistics are taken from the Ninth Annual Report (new 

 series) of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, Winnipeg, Sept., 1917, 

 pp. 85, 87. 



