viii PREFACE 



History of Wheat-growing in Manitoba, and Wheat in 

 Western Canada, and two concluding chapters upon The 

 Origin of Red Bohs and Kitchener and The Wild Wheat 

 of Palestine. 



In order to collect the data embodied in the following 

 pages I have engaged in an extensive correspondence, have 

 made many inquiries at Winnipeg, and have visited Ot- 

 tawa, Brandon, Indian Head, Saskatoon, and Eosthem in 

 Canada, and Fargo, Minneapolis, and St. Paul in the 

 United States. I have also investigated personally the 

 sampling and grading of wheat at Winnipeg, of which an 

 account is given in the second Chapter. To the numerous 

 cerealists, grain growers, grain merchants, millers, statis- 

 ticians and others who have assisted me with information 

 and criticism, I here wish to express my hearty thanks. 



A. H. Ebgiwald BtrxLEu, 

 Winnipeg, April 10, 1919. 



