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ported for seed purposes and supplied to the farmers at cost 

 by the Andrews Grain Company, also of Minneapolis.^^ 

 Other firms made similar importations on a smaller scale, 

 so that, altogether, about 200,000 bushels of Marquis 

 were brought across the Line and made available for seed 

 in the spring of 1913. In 1914 still more Canadian 

 Marquis was brought in. Most of the imported seed was 

 sold in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana, and small 

 quantities in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wash- 

 ington. The importations for 1913 and 1914, together 

 with the seed grown at home in 1913, sufficed to sow about 

 half a million acres in 1914. The total crop of Marquis 

 in the United States, in the fall of 1914, was probably 

 about 7,000,000 bushels and of this 6,360,000 bushels were 

 produced in Minnesota and the two Dakotas.^* This crop 

 gave a large supply of home-grown seed and in conse- 

 quence importations of further seed from Canada prac- 

 tically ceased. -^^ 



This firm's analyst immediately recognized the high gluten con- 

 tents of the new wheat with the result that the Russell, Miller Milling 

 Co. made further enquiries about Marquis and initiated their cam- 

 paign for its introduction into the Northwestern States. 



13 From the records of the Andrews Grain Company. The in- 

 formation was kindly supplied to me by Mr. Godfrey at an in- 

 terview in the office of the firm. 



1* C. R. Ball and J. A. Clark, Experiments with Marquis Wheat, 

 Bulletin No. 400, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Oct., 1916. p. 4. 



15 The following are the firms which purchased Marquis seed 

 from the Angus McKay Farm Seed Co., or through it, during the 

 first distribution of the seed in the United States, and the number 

 of bushels of seed which each bought: 



Firms Locality Bushels 



Russell, Miller Milling Co Minneapolis 111,552 



Andrews Grain Co Minneapolis 40,620 



Northrup Grain Co Minneapolis 11,000 



D. B. Shaw Tower City, N. D 6,400 



Harvey Milling Co Harvey, N. D 2,500 



Crookston Milling Co Crookston, Minn 2,500 



