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INDEX 



W. 



Wangen, emmer foimd in lake 

 dwellings of, 298. 



War, the Great, and part played 

 by Marquis wheat, 255 ; and 

 price of wheat, 255 ; and the 

 Grain Growers' Export Com- 

 pany, 143; effect of peace on 

 crop value of Marquis, 246 ; 

 effect on grain trade of, 118- 

 129; efforts to increase crops 

 during, 40; export of flour 

 during, 136; increase of Mar- 

 quis during, 164. 



Warburg, and the wild wheat, 

 286. 



Warehouse receipts, for grain, 

 100-101. 



Warfare, delightful, with wheat 

 and corn, 170. 



Warren wheat, in Australia, 

 259. 



Washing machine, how driven, 

 139. 



Washington, Bureau of Crop Es- 

 timates at, quoted, 167 ; 

 Monthly Crop Reports, 191, 

 244, 245, 247, 249, 251. 



Washington States, and Marquis 

 wheat, 160, 164, 165, 192. 



Water-mills, number of, in 1849. 



Water power, and milling, 134. 



Wealth increased by introduction 

 of Marquis wheat, in Canada, 

 252-257 ; in North America, 

 257-258; in the United States, 

 246-252. 



Weather, and yield of Marquis 

 wheat, 196; during harvesting, 

 48; very cold, in, 1825-1826, 

 19. 



Weeds, chief kinds of, 44; choke 

 grain in 1813, 5; harrowing to 

 kill, 46; some introduced with 



seed wheat in 1820, 13; on 

 stubble fields, 43. 



Weed seeds in wheat, how esti- 

 mated, 88; kinds of, 70-71. 



Weighing of wheat, at country 

 elevators, 56; general account 

 of, 98-100; by graders af 

 Winnipeg Grain Exchange, 

 how accomplished, 82, 87-88. 



Weighmaster, the Chief, 100. 



Weight, of Ladoga wheat in far 

 north, 181; of wheat in cer- 

 tain grades, 72-73; of wheat 

 per bushel, 175. 



Western Canada, crop statistics 

 of, 35-40; effect of revolution 

 in the milling industry upon, 

 30-31; value of Marquis to, 

 256. 



Western Canada Flour Mills 

 Company Limited, 135. 



Western Inspection Division, for 

 cereals, 54, 59, 92. 



Wheat, admixtures of, 70-71; 

 and Hudson Bay railway, 51- 

 52; and farmers' trading com- 

 panies, 141-142; and food, 

 227; and frost, 180-183; and 

 rust disease, 175-180; and 

 weather, 175-176; antiquity 

 and origin of, 279-285, 298; as 

 basis of Winnipeg's prosperity, 

 33; at terminal elevators, 60- 

 64 ; botanical classification of, 

 292-293; bought and sold at 

 Winnipeg Grain Exchange, 

 111-118; bought and sold by 

 elevator companies, 133; bush- 

 els raised in various countries, 

 40; cessation of future trading 

 in, 122; cleaned for seed, 44; 

 color of kernels of, 260-262; 

 commandeered in 1915, 119; 

 conclusion concerning, 306 ; 

 contract grades of, 111-112; 



