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INDEX 



Macdonell, Miles, leads Selkirk 

 settlers, 1; on harvest of 1813, 

 2 ; surrenders himself, 5. 



MacDougal, John, quern of, 16. 



MacKay, Angus, and MacKay 

 pea, 240-241 ; and Marquis 

 wheat, 159; procures Ladoga 

 wheat, 147. 



MacKay pea, named by W. 

 Saunders, 240-241. 



Mackensie, Donald, describes Red 

 River colony in 1820, 20-21. 



Mackensie River, and wheat, 181. 



Magill, Robert, advocated estab- 

 lishment of Grain Research 

 Laboratory, 102; on the grad- 

 ing and inspection of grain, 

 55, 64, 68, 76, 78, 79-82, 95- 

 96, 102. 



Manchurian barley, originated 

 by C. E. Saunders, 239. 



Mandscheuri barley, importation 

 of, 239. 



Manitoba, and a prize for wheat, 

 174; and the agrarian move- 

 ment, 141; and the Survey 

 Board, 97; boundary of, 3; 

 corn grown in, 189-190; Hud- 

 son Bay railway in, 51-52; 

 first export of wheat from, 

 216; flour mills of, 134; forma- 

 tion of the Province of, 32 ; 

 Marquis wheat introduced into, 

 157 ; obtains Red Fife seed- 

 wheat from Minnesota, 217- 

 218; shelling of wheat in, 

 197; tests for Marquis wheat 

 in, 175; wheats crossed in, 

 148; yield of Marquis in, 190, 

 196. 



Manitoba Daily Free Press, on 

 Red Fife wheat, 210, 227; on 

 spring wheat in Ontario, 215. 



Manitoba Grain Growers Asso- 

 ciation, organization of, 141. 



Mannichtousan, king of Sis, obe- 

 lisk to, 279. 



Manure, use of, 43, 44. 



Maple Leaf Milling Company 

 Limited, 135. 



Maritime Provinces and Marquis 

 wheat, 157. 



Marketing grain, by sample, 69- 

 70. 



Marquis wheat, and Bobs, 260; 

 and Burbank's Quality wheat, 

 233-237; and frost, 180-181; 

 and hail, 276; and Hard Red 

 Calcutta, 204-206; and its 

 parent Red Fife, 218; and 

 rust, 176-180; and the north- 

 ward advance of the wheat- 

 belt, 188; and the War, 228; 

 as the offspring of Red Fife 

 and Hard Red Calcutta, 218- 

 223 ; beneficial influence of, 

 154; classification of, 292; 

 comparative yields of, in 

 Canada and the United States, 

 196; compared with Minnesota 

 standard wheat varieties, 

 (Figs. 29, 30, 31), 166, 170, 

 171; compared with Ruby and 

 Prelude, 183-184; crop values 

 in Canada and the United 

 States, 243-246; discovery and 

 introduction of, 144-257; dis- 

 covery of, not accidental, 238; 

 does not shell readily, 197; 

 earliness and storms, 176; 

 earliness and yield of, 174- 

 175; economic value of, 230- 

 233 ; extraordinary example of 

 vegetable increase, 170; favor- 

 able grading of, 196-197; first 

 distribution of, 157 ; first 

 grinding of, 156; future of, 

 223-228; genealogical tree of, 

 185; general description of, 

 170-172; history of, not well 



