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INDEX 



Commission merchants, at Grain 

 Exchange, 106; borrow for 

 banks, 131. 



Commission rule, value of, 107. 



Consumers, represented on Board 

 of Grain Commissioners, 128. 



Contract grades, of wheat, 111- 

 112. 



Cook, O. F., investigations on 

 wild wheat, 290; illustrations 

 by, 289, 290, 298; on cross-fer- 

 tilization of wild wheat, 300; 

 on the origin of wheat, 298- 

 299. 



Corbett, J. C, on Burbank's new 

 fruits, 232. 



Corn, and wheat, battle with, 

 170; at Rosthern, 273; in 1822, 

 16; northern advance of, 187- 

 190. 



Council of Assiniboia, 28, 



Country elevators, controlled by 

 farmers, 142; cost of building, 

 131; deiinition of, 53; descrip- 

 tion of, 56-57; shipping grain 

 from, 57-58 ; weighing wheat 

 at, 98-100. 



Country Gentleman and Culti- 

 vator, and Red Fife wheat, 

 206. 



Cream-separator, how driven, 

 138. 



Credit, importance of, 133; 

 principle of velocity of, 132; 

 use of, in crop movements, 

 130-131. 



Crete, wheat of, 279. 



Crookston Milling Company, and 

 Marquis wheat, 160. 



Crops, destruction of by hail, 

 48 ; financing movement of, 

 130-134; statistics of, 35-iO; 

 values of, in Canada, 256; val- 

 ues of, for Marquis wheat, 243- 

 246. 



Cross, products of, between Red 

 Fife and Hard Red Calcutta 

 wheats, 205. 



Cross-bred kernels, how pro- 

 duced, 219-221. 



Cross-bred wheats, a remarkable 

 product of modern botany, 

 187. 



Cross-breeding of wheats, results 

 of, 226. 



Cross-fertilization, in wild wheat 

 and other grasses, 299-306. 



Crossing of wheat, occurs nat- 

 urally, observed by Rimpau, 

 303. 



Crossing of wheat species, 296. 



Crossing wheats, by W. Saunders 

 and his assistants, 148-150; 

 failure with einkorn, 293 ; 

 genealogical trees of Marquis, 

 Ruby, and Prelude, 185; Mar- 

 quis results from, 152 ; Red 

 Bobs the product of a natural 

 cross, 264-268. 



Cross-pollination, in cultivated 

 wheat, 300-301 ; in wild wheat, 

 300; natural, of wheats, 265- 

 267 ; of wild grasses, Kerner's 

 observations on, 304-306. 



Cultivation of plants and civili- 

 zation, 278-279. 



Currants, called Climax and 

 Saunders, 145. 



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Daotylis, time of pollination of, 



305. 

 Dakota Climax wheat, 149. 

 Dakotas, and milling, 31. 

 Damp wheat, milling value of, 



104. 

 Danzig, and the origin of Red 



Fife wheat, 207-209, 214. 

 Dawson, Robert, and the origin 



