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INDEX 



Syria, flora of, does not include 

 wild wheat, 287; wild wheat 

 found in, 290. 



T. 



Telegrams, at Winnipeg Grain 

 Exchange, 117; and geographi- 

 cal position of Winnipeg, 108. 



Telegraphy, wireless, possible use 

 of, 140. 



Telephone, and geographical po- 

 sition of Winnipeg, 108; sum- 

 moning of wheat traders to, 

 117; use of, on farms, 140. 



Temperature, and opening of 

 wheat flowers, 302-303, 306. 



Terminal elevators, clearance of 

 cargoes from, 67 ; some con- 

 trolled by farmers, 142 ; deflni- 

 tion of, 54; description of, 60- 

 64; impression made on immi- 

 grant by, 60-61 ; inspection at, 

 93-96 ; weighing wheat at, 98- 

 100. 



Test-plots, of C. E. Saunders at 

 Ottawa (Figs. 23 and 24), 153, 

 157; of John Bracken, 270. 



Theophrastus, mentions rust dis- 

 ease, 283. 



The Pas, and the Hudson Bay 

 Railway, 51. 



Thew wheat, in Australia, 259. 



Threshing machines, engines for, 

 139; improvement of, 138. 



Threshing of wheat, and Mar- 

 quis, 197 ; in western Canada, 

 46-47 ; on ice-floes in Selkirk 

 Settlement, 22. 



Thompson, W. P., and Dwarf 

 Marquis wheat, 225 ; and rust- 

 resistance, 180; crossing ex- 

 periments of, 267 ; his plot of 

 wild wheat, 291. 



Times, the, letters concerning 



Red River Settlement in, 28. 

 Toronto, and Red Fife wheat, 



212, 216; tests of Ladoga flour 



at, 147. 

 Tough wheat, milling value of, 



104. 

 Trabut, on crossing varieties of 



Anagallis, 297. 

 Tractors, replacing horses on 



farms, 139. 

 Traill, Maulson, and Clark, im- 

 port Red Fife, 218. 

 Trains, breaking up of, 94; pro- 

 cession of grain trains, 59 ; 



view of trains of Canadian 



Pacific Railway (Fig. 10), 57. 

 Transcona, elevator at, 64. 

 Trees, planting of, on farms, 140. 

 Trisetum, time of pollination of, 



305. 

 Triticum, time of pollination 



of, 305; subdivisions of, 292, 



293. 

 Triticum dicoccurn, and wild 



wheat, 290 ; not g^o^vn in 



Syria and Palestine, 289. 

 Triticum dicoccurn dicoccoides, 



289-291. 

 Triticum hermonis, conclusion 



concerning, 299; Cook's name 



for the wild wheat, 290-291. 

 Triticum monococcum, and wheat 



hybrids, 293; einkorn, 289. 

 'Triticum, monococcum aegili- 



poide, found on Mount Her- 



mon, 289. 

 Triticum polonicum, crossing of, 



296. 

 Triticum, vulgare dicoccoides, 



286. 

 Troy, barley found in ruins of, 



297. 

 Tryptolemus, and the origin of 



wheat, 280. 



