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INDEX 



cause of improved barley pro- 

 duction in, 239 ; export of Red 

 Fife to, in 1876, 30, 216; flour 

 mill at Port Colborne, 135; 

 Marquis wheat in, 157; west- 

 ern flour mills of, 134-135. 



Ontario Agricultural College, 

 improvement in barley at, and 

 its economic importance, 239 ; 

 tests for winter wbeat at, 224- 

 225. 



Oregon, and yield of Marquis 

 wbeat, 192. 



Osiris, and mythical origin of 

 wheat, 280. ; 



Otonabee, and Red Fife wheat, 

 206, 207, 210, 212. 



Ottawa, crossed wheats trans- 

 ferred to, 148; Marquis wheat 

 selected at, 151-152; Monthly 

 Bulletin published at, 104. 



Ovid, on the rust disease, 283. 



P. 



Pacific North-West, Marquis 

 wheat in, 165—166. 



Palaeolithic Period, and agricul- 

 ture, 284. 



Palestine, and wild wheat, 286- 

 291. 



Palouse district, and Marquis 

 wheat, 165. 



Panama Canal, and elevators, 

 64; shipment of bulk wheat 

 through, 52-53, 64, 103. 



Panicum milliaceum, time of 

 pollination of, 305. 



Paris, and Winnipeg Grain Ex- 

 change, 105. 



Passenger pigeons, in Manitoba, 

 4-5. 



Peace River valley, and Ladoga 

 wheat, 181 ; and Red Fife, 184. 



Peas, in census of 1822, 16; new 

 sorts of, 240-241. 



Pembina, settlers go to, 11. 



Percy wheat, origin of, 149. 



Persia, and primitive wheats, 

 296. 



Perrigault, inventor of the puri- 

 fier, 31. 



Peterborough, and Red Fife 

 wheat, 207, 212-213. 



Philadelphia, export of wheat 

 from, 50-51. 



Phleum, time of pollination of, 

 305. 



Phonograph, on farms, 140. 



Pigeons, Passenger, C. N. Bell 

 on, 4-5; injury of crops by, 4. 



Pigs, number of, in 1849, 27. 



Piper, C. B., on financing the 

 crop movement, 130; on geo- 

 graphical position of the Win- 

 nipeg Grain Exchange, 109; 

 on lake steamers, 65-66; on 

 prices of contract grades, 111- 

 112; on relative transporta- 

 tion costs, 66; on velocity of 

 credit, 132. 



Plant-breeders, and origin of 

 new wheats, 223-226 ; triumphs 

 of, 228. 



Plant-breeding, much still to be 

 done in Canada, 241. 



Pliny, and the rust disease, 

 283. 



Plows, absence of in Selkirk Set- 

 tlement, 2, 8; improvement of, 

 138; number of, in 1849, 27; 

 yields after plowing in 1824, 

 16. 



Plowing, in western Canada, 43; 

 tractor for, 139. 



Poa, time of pollination of, 305. 



Polish wheat, classification of, 

 292. 



Pollination, and origin of Mar- 



