INDEX 



319 



Henderson, and Red Fife wheat, 

 214. 



Hendrum, and Minnesota No. 23 

 corn, 188. 



Hewitt, Gordon, on grasshoppers, 

 11. 



Hill, James J., wheat prize of- 

 fered by, 172. 



Himalaya Mountains, wheat 

 brought from, 146. 



Hoe, used for wheat culture, 2, 

 4, 8, 16. 



Holous, time of pollination of, 

 305. 



Holmes, wins a prize for wheat, 

 173. 



Hoover, Herbert, appointed food 

 controller, 126; regulates 

 wheat export, 129. 



Hordeum jubatum, its brittle 

 rachis, 294. 



Horses, death of, 18; improve- 

 ment of breed of, 25; number 

 in 1849, 27. 



Hospital elevator, definition of, 

 54. 



Hour-glass, the, in the Red River 

 Settlement, 14-15. 



Houses, number of, in Red River 

 Settlement in 1849, 27. 



Houston county, corn grown in, 

 189. 



Howard, A., 6. L. C. Howard and 

 Rahman Abdur, on natural 

 crossing of wheat in India, 

 301. 



Hudson Bay, and elevators, 64; 

 use of, 51. 



Hudson Bay railway, 51-52. 



Hudson's Bay Company, at Fort 

 Douglas, 8; change of route 

 of, 29, 51; gives a prize for 

 wheat, 217; grant of, to Lord 

 Selkirk, 1, 3; its roller mill at 

 Vermilion, 181-182; market 



of, 30; purchase of flour, 21; 

 rival of the North-West Com- 

 pany, 5; windmill of, 17. 



Hulless barley, crossbred by 

 C. E. Saunders, 240; evolution 

 of, 295. 



Hulless oats, evolution of, 295. 



Huron wheat, origin of, 149. 



I. 



Ice, and close of navigation, 63; 

 thickness in Red River, 19. 



Idaho, Marquis wheat in, 164, 

 165. 



Illinois, and the corn-belt, 187; 

 Marquis wheat in, 164. 



India, source of Hard Red Cal- 

 cutta and Gehun wheats, 186; 

 wheat exported in bags, 52; 

 wheat in war-time of, 123; 

 wheat varieties from, 146. 



Indiana, and the corn-belt, 187; 

 Marquis wheat in, 164. 



Indian corn, in census of 1822, 

 16. Yide corn. 



Indian Head, and Angus Mac- 

 Kay, 147; and the agrarian 

 movement, 141; aboretimi at, 

 140; Marquis wheat at, 157; 

 Marquis procured from, 159; 

 Ruby and Red Bobs wheat 

 tested at, 185; tests for Bobs 

 wheat at, 260, 262; tests of 

 Marquis at, 174-175; wheats 

 crossed at, 148, 152; yield of 

 Marquis at, 191, 196. 



Indians, nickname colonists, 2; 

 suffer from the Bloody Flux, 

 26. 



Influenza, compared with the 

 Bloody Flux, 26, 27. 



Inland Empire, and Marquis 

 wheat, 165. 



