INDEX 



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exported from Manitoba to 

 Ontario in 187G, 216; famous 

 during last century, 145-146; 

 for seed in Manitoba, brought 

 from Minnesota, 217; grinding 

 of, 196-197; improvement of, 

 224; in definition of grades, 

 72-73; introduction into 

 United States, 215; in western 

 Canada, 42; milling and bak- 

 ing qualities of, 198; name 

 wrongly applied to Preston 

 wheat, 149; origin of, 206- 

 218; origin of name of, 206; 

 outyielded by Marquis, 157; 

 parent of Preston and Stanley, 

 149; possible origin from wild 

 wheat of Palestine, 291; price 

 of, in 1843, 214; replaced by 

 Marquis, 227, 253-254; the 

 male parent of Marquis, 151; 

 used in crossing experiments, 

 148; yield and earliness of, 

 compared with Marquis, 190, 

 174-175; why sought in Brit- 

 ish market, 200. 



Red Eiver, as a main highway, 

 10; ice of, in 1825-26, 19. 



Eed River carts, number and 

 use of, 29. 



Red River Settlement, history of, 

 1-33; and Hudson Bay, 51. 



Red Russian wheat, and Mar- 

 quis, 165. 



Regina, Marquis seed-wheat for 

 United States procured from, 

 159; and Saskatchewan Grain 

 Growers Association, 142; 

 publication on rust disease at, 

 178. 



Registration records, for wheat, 

 101. 



Reinspection of wheat, 96-98. 



Re-selection of wheats, by C. E. 

 Saunders, 153-154. 



Resistance to disease, by wheat, 

 179-180, 226. 



Reubens, Marquis wheat at, 165. 



Richardson, A. E. V., on Far- 

 rer's wheat-breeding work, 

 259-260. 



Riel, Louis, insurrection of, 32. 



Riga wheat, at Fort Vermilion, 

 183. 



Rimpau, and selections of wheat, 

 224; on elongation of staminal 

 filaments of wheat, 304; on 

 lodicules of grass flowers, 304; 

 on opening of wheat flowers, 

 303. 



Rio Grande wheat, and a natural 

 cross, 265-266. 



Ripening of wheat, and latitude, 

 182, 184; comparative, of 

 Marquis and Red Fife, 175. 



Robenhausen, emmer found in 

 lake dwellings of, 298. 



Robertson, Colin, and return of 

 settlers to Red River, 6. 



Robigus, the rust god, 283-284. 



Roblin, R. P., on corn grown in 

 Manitoba, 189. 



Rocky Mountains, the, and Mar- 

 quis wheat, 166, 192; and 

 Quality wheat, 236. 



Rome, and Ceres, 282-283 ; wheat 

 of, 279. 



Root-rot of wheat, and disease- 

 resistance, 226. 



Roscher, W. H., on Ceres, 283. 



Rosh Pinar, wild wheat found 

 at, 287-288. 



Ross, Alexander, on Bloody Flux, 

 26; on census of 1849, 27; on 

 grasshoppers, 10-12; on mice, 

 18; on Red River flour, 21- 

 24; on the hour-glass, 14-15; 

 on yields of wheat, 20 ; pos- 

 sible error in chronology of, 4. 



Rosthern, and origin of Red 



