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INDEX 



Marquis, 172-174; awarded to 

 White Bobs, 270; in 1882 at 

 Winnipeg, 217; won by Seager 

 Wheeler, 274-275, 276. 



Probe, for sampling grain cars, 

 construction and use of, 84- 

 85. 



Prosperity, of Red River Settle- 

 ment in 1822, 20-21. 



Puccinia graminis, action of fun- 

 gus on wheat, 176-180. 



Pullman, Marquis wheat at, 165. 



Pumping water, how accom- 

 plished on farms, 138. 



Punjab, natural cross-pollination 

 of wheat in, 301. 



Purifier for flour, and hard 

 spring wheat in Manitoba, 

 217; introduction into Minne- 

 apolis of, 30-31. 



Q. 



Quality, in wheat, 198-200. 

 Quality wheat, Burbank's, and 



Marquis, 233-237. 

 Quantity wheat, Burbank's, 234- 



235. 

 Quebec, Province of. Marquis 



wheat in, 157. 

 Quebec No. 28 corn, ripening of, 



190. 

 Quern, brought by Doukabors, 



description of, 136-137; in 



Red River Settlement, 16-17. 



R. 



Rabbits and mice, periodic in- 

 crease of, 18. 



Rachis of wheat heads, brittle in 

 certain wheats, 293-295; rigid 

 derived from brittle, 296. 



Railways, all-rail route for 



wheat, 63 ; and the wheat fun- 

 nel, 49; and transportation by 

 water, 66 ; conductor's train 

 list, 83 ; grain trains at Winni- 

 peg, 78; long haul of wheat 

 on, 183; procession of grain 

 trains on, 59 ; sampling grain 

 on, 79-81; sealing cars of, 58; 

 seals of, 83-84; size of box- 

 cars, 58. 



Rain, danger of, to standing 

 crops, 176; low rain-fall and 

 fallowing, 44. 



Rasheyya, and wild wheat, 286- 

 288. 



Raymond, and Marquis wheat, 

 173. 



Recorder of Winnipeg Grain Ex- 

 change, presides over wheat- 

 pit, 118. 



Red Bobs wheat, and hail, 276; 

 at University of Saskatchewan, 

 270-271; description of, 272; 

 future of, 227; origin of, 259- 

 275 ; selection, multiplication, 

 and distribution of, 268-270; 

 shown at a show, 174; tests 

 of, incomplete, 272 ; the prod- 

 uct of a natural cross, 264- 

 268. 



Red Chaff wheat, replaced by 

 Red Fife, 227. 



Red Fife wheat, and a natural 

 cross, 265-266; and Hard Red 

 Calcutta, 205; and frost, 180; 

 and Marquis, 257; and Mar- 

 quis in the United States, 

 164; and parentage of Mar- 

 quis, 218-223; and shelling, 

 197; and Rust disease, 178, 

 180, 214; a parent of Marquis 

 and Ruby, 186-187; at Fort 

 Vermilion, 184; classification 

 of, 292; compared with Mar- 

 quis in plot tests, 174-175; 



