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wheat valued at 52,000,000 dollars. During the food 

 crisis of 1917-1918, this mass of wheat was of very 

 great assistance to the Allies in their prosecution of the 

 war. 



8. The Government of the Dominion of Canada pre- 

 pared the way for the discovery of Marquis wheat by 

 establishing the Experimental Farms system in 1886, 

 by encouraging cereal research, and by appointing Dr. 

 Charles E. Saunders, a well-trained scientific man, as 

 Dominion Cerealist in 1903. 



9. Marquis wheat was discovered as the result of the 

 application of biological and chemical principles to the 

 problem of breeding a new variety of wheat better adapted 

 than Red Fife for cultivation in the Prairie Provinces of 

 western Canada. 



10. The great success of Marquis wheat in the world 

 affords an excellent instance of the benefits which have 

 already been derived from the encouragement given by re- 

 sponsible governments to scientific research. 



