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INDEX 



Scotland, and Eed Fife wheat, 

 207-208. 



Screenings, at country elevators, 

 56. 



Sealing railway cars, after in- 

 spection, 81, 84; at country 

 elevators, 58. 



Seals of railway cars, breaking 

 of, 83 ; construction of, 83 ; 

 record of, 100. 



Seattle, export of wheat from, 

 52. 



Seed Fairs, Seager Wheeler at, 

 275. 



Seed-testing laboratories, for 

 wheat, 45. 



Seed wheat, highest prices for, 

 234 ; of Marquis, first distribu- 

 tion in western Canada, 157; 

 of Marquis, Kitchener, and 

 Red Bobs, supplied by Seager 

 Wheeler, 275; of Red Bobs, 

 supplied by Orain Growers 

 Guide, 269; of Red Fife, 217- 

 218; preparation and sowing 

 of, 44-45. 



Selection, of new wheat varie- 

 ties, 224-227. 



Self-fertilization, of wheat flow- 

 ers, 222. 



Self-pollination, of wheat flow- 

 ers, 301-303. 



Selkirk, Lord, and the Kildonan 

 farms, 9-10; bears expense of 

 seed wheat, 13; belief in ex- 

 perimental farms justified, 26; 

 care of colonists by, 14; cost of 

 experimental farm to, 25; 

 death of, in France, 9; encour- 

 aged agriculture in 1815, 9; 

 force sent by, 8; map showing 

 his grant of land, 3; refers to 

 a distillery, 18; remarkable 

 prophecy of, 8-9 ; Semple's let- 

 ter to, 7; sends a wind-mill to 



Red River Settlement, 24; 

 sends out a mill-wright in 

 1813, 17; sends settlers to 

 Manitoba, 1 ; visits Red River 

 Settlement in 1817, 8-9. 



Selkirk Settlement, foimdation 

 of, 1; state of, in 1870, 29-30; 

 value of, in 1822, 16. 



Selkirk settlers, history of, 1- 

 33; route of, in 1811-1815, 3. 



Semple, Robert, calculation by, 

 of wheat stored at Settlement 

 in 1815, 6; death of, in fight 

 at Seven Oaks, 7. 



Serbes, cultivate euikorn and 

 emmer, 296. 



Serls, George, as Chief Inspector 

 of grain, 77; on percentage of 

 Marquis in western Canadian 

 wheat crop, 243, 253. 



Seven Oaks, fatal fight at, 7. 



Shaughnessy, Sir Thomas, wheat 

 prize offered by, 172-173. 



Sheep, number of, in 1849, 27. 



Shelling, of Hard Red Calcutta, 

 205 ; resistance to, by Marquis, 

 197, 223. 



Shipley, J. W., on extraordinary 

 size of hailstones, 48. 



Shipping, facilities for, and posi- 

 tion of flovir mills, 134; of 

 Marquis wheat across Atlajitic, 

 158; of wheat, by lake ship- 

 pers, 66-68; of wheat, on 

 Peace River, 183; shortage of, 

 during war, 119. 



Shirreflf, and selections of wheat, 

 224. 



Shutt, F. T., sections of papers 

 on wheat written by, 242. 



Siberian wheat, in Ontario, 213. 



Sickle, used by Selkirk settlers, 

 16. 



Sieving, of grain, 82. 



Simpson, Governor, encourages 



