CONTENTS 



Preface 



VII 



CHAPTEK I 



The Early History of Wheat-Growing in Manitoba 



SECTION PAGE 



I The First Wheat Crops in Western Canada . . 1 



II Troubles with the North- West Company . . 4 



III Visit of Lord Selkirk . . ' 8 



IV The First Farms 9 



V The Plague of Grasshoppers 10 



VI New Seed-Wheat from the United States . . 12 



VII The Hour-Glass 14 



VIII The Census of 1822 16 



IX Milling Operations 16 



X The Mice 18 



XI The Great Flood 18 



XII Prosperity in 1829 20 



Xin The Ked Eiver Flour 21 



XIV Windmills 24 



XV The Experimental Farms 24 



XVI The Bloody Flux 26 



XVn The Census of 1849 27 



XVIII Another Plague of Grasshoppers 28 



XIX State of the Settlement in 1870 29 



XX Effect of the Revolution in the Milling Industry 30 



XXI The St. Paul Eailway 32 



XXII The Canadian Pacific Eailway 33 



CHAPTEE II 

 Wheat in Western Canada 



I Some Crop Statistics 36 



II Wheat Growing 41 



