DISCOVERY OF MARQUIS WHEAT 



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XXXI. The Crop Values of Marquis in Canada and the 



United States 



In Canada the crop value of Marquis for the years 1917 

 and 1918 can be calculated roughly without much diffi- 

 culty. In both these years at least 80 per cent, of the 

 wheat produced in the Prairie Provinces was Marquis, ^^ 

 and the average price received by farmers for the crop of 

 both years was, is, and will be almost exactly two dollars 

 a bushel. ^^ The data for the required calculations to- 

 gether with the results are embodied in the following 

 Table:" 



Crop Values of Marquis Wheat in Canada 



To the total given in the last column several millions of 

 dollars should be added for the crop value of Marquis 

 grown in Ontario, Quebec, etc. 



From the data at our disposal we may safely draw the 

 conclusion that the crop value of Marquis for the whole 



15 Information kindly supplied by Mr. George Serls, the chief Grain 

 Inspector for the Dominion of Canada. 



16 Information kindly supplied by Mr. Irvine, Assistant Secretary 

 of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. 



17 The total crop of wheat in the Prairie Provinces for 1917 is that 

 given in the Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics, Ottawa, Jan., 1918, 

 and the crop for 1918 as estimated in September, 1918, at Winnipeg. 



