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INDEX 



Grass family and cross-pollina- 

 tion, 300, 304-306. 



Grasshoppers, and locusts, 1 1 ; 

 plagues of, 10, 28. 



Great Northern Railway, and J. 

 J. Hill's wheat prize, 172. 



Greece, and Marquis wheat, 228 ; 

 ancient, and wheat, 279. 



Greeks, and the origin of wheat, 

 280. 



Grinding grain, engine for, 139. 



Grindstones, how driven, 139; 

 teeth used as, 157. 



Gunn, Donald, on rival fur com- 

 panies, 5. 



Gynerium argenteum, time of 

 pollination of, 305. 



Hackel, and wheat classification, 

 292-293; on lodicules of grass 

 flowers, 304. 



Haifa, experiment station at, 

 286. 



Hail, danger of, 48, 49, 176; de- 

 stroys Seager Wheeler's crops, 

 268-269 ; insurance against, 

 48 ; resistance of wheats to, 

 276. 



Hailstones, as large as hens' 

 eggs, 48. 



Half-breeds, in the Selkirk Set- 

 tlement, 6, 7, 18. 



Halifax, export of wheat from, 

 50-51. 



Halkett, and the Selkirk Settle- 

 ment, 15. 



Hallet, and selections of wheat, 

 224; stimulates Haynes, 225. 



Hanna, W. J., on consumption of 

 wheat in Canada, 255. 



Hanson and Barson, and Marquis 

 wheat, 161, 



Hard and soft wheats, color of, 

 261-262; mixed by British 

 millers, 200. 



Hard Red Calcutta wheat, and 

 parentage of Marquis, 151, 186, 

 218-223; origin of, 204-206. 



Hargrave, J. J., on grasshopper 

 plague, 28-29; on the Red 

 River Settlement in 1870, 29- 

 30. 



Harrison, T. J., grew wild wheat 

 at Winnipeg, 291. 



Harrowing of crops, 46. 



Harrows, number of, in 1849, 27. 



Hartney, James, his Red Fife 

 wheat, 217. 



Harvesters, visit western Canada 

 annually, 47. 



Harvesting wheat, and shelling, 

 197; with a brittle rachis, 

 294; description of, in western 

 Canada, 



Harvey, George, and White Bobs 

 wheat, 270. 



Harvey Milling Company, and 

 Marquis wheat, 160. 



Haussknecht, on wild einkorn, 

 296. 



Hayes, H. K., and rust-resistance, 

 179; on natural crosses in 

 wheat, 266-267; supplies in- 

 formation on Haynes' Blue- 

 stem wheat, 225. 



Haynes, and his Bluestem wheat, 

 224. 



Haynes' Bluestem wheat, com- 

 pared with Marquis, 166, 170, 

 171. 



Heating of wheat grains, 71. 



Hedged grain, not up to contract 

 grades, 121. 



Hedging of grain, explanation 

 of, 110, 133. 



Helm, H. S., on Marquis wheat, 

 159. 



