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The tests on these 1903 samples confirmed the 

 farmers in their opinion that on 1903 wheat the spread 

 in price between No. 1 Hard and No. 4 was not in 

 harmony with the milling quality. From No. 1 Hard 

 the -amuimL ol' Hour obtained was 70.8 per cent, as 

 against 68 per cent, from the No. 4 grade. The large 

 percentage of stook-frozen grain that went into the 

 lower grades because it was technically debarred from 

 the higher ones no doubt raised the milling value, it 

 was thought, of all the grades that year. 

 j The Department of Agriculture for the Territories 

 'therefore decided to repeat the tests with 1904 wheat. 

 The samples with which Professor Harcourt was 

 furnished represented the grain just as it was sold by 

 the farmer and graded either at the elevator or by the 

 Chief Grain Inspector; it was not a composite sample 

 of the commercial grades. The second tests practically 

 confirmed jhe work done the previous year. The milling, 

 chemical and baking tests failed to show very wide 

 differences in the composition and milling value of tbe 

 grades submitted. The conclusion reached was that the 

 difference in composition and milling value was nearly 

 as great between samples of any one grade as between 

 the various grades. 



The farmers began to feel that it would be a good 

 thing to have a representative at Winnipeg to watch 

 the grading of their" carsan5^oiooKfi3S5Their inter- 

 ests generally. The Department of Agriculture for the 

 Territories was asked by the Sintaluta grain growers 

 to appoint a man and W. H. Gaddes was commissioned 

 to act for two weeks. Then the farmers began to 

 wonder if they could not send down a man of their 

 own ; at one of their meetings the question was put and 



