INDEX 



333 



agriculture, 21; his experi- 

 mental farm, 25. 



Smith, L. H., on natural hybrids 

 of wheat, 266. 



Smith's Creek, and Red Fife 

 ■wheat, 213. 



Smut disease, and disease-resist- 

 ance, 226 ; bunt-resisting 

 wheat, 259 ; in threshed wheat, 

 71; prevention of, 44-45; re- 

 sistance to, 178. 



Smut-mills, absence of in Selkirk 

 Settlement, 22. 



Social development, and agricul- 

 ture, 278-279; the agrarian 

 movement, 141—143. 



Soil, fertility of, in 1813-1814, 

 2 ; preparation of, for crops, 

 42--44. 



Solms-Laubach, the Count of, on 

 the origin of wheat, 285. 



Sorghum, time of pollination of, 

 305. 



South Dakota, and yields of sev- 

 eral wheat varieties, 193-196; 

 chief wheat varieties of, and 

 total crop, 167 ; corn culture 

 in, 187; crop value of Marquis 

 wheat in, 244-245 ; increase in 

 wealth in, from growing Mar- 

 quis, 249-252; introduction of 

 Marquis into, 158-165; Mar- 

 quis in, 157; Preston wheat in, 

 149. 



Soy-beans, at Eosthern, 273. 



Speculating in wheat, investiga- 

 tion of, 121. 



Spelt, elassiiication of, 292; de- 

 crease in cultivation of, 297; 

 no very ancient remains of, 

 297. 



Spread between wheat prices, 

 nature of, 93. 



Spring wheat and winter wheat, 

 in Minnesota, 162; in Selkirk 



Settlement, 1; in western Can- 

 ada, 42. 



Square Head's Master wheat, in 

 England, 179. 



Stabber, for sampling grain, 

 structure and use of, 84-85. 



Stakman, E. K., and rust-resist- 

 ance, 179 ; on geography of 

 Marquis wheat, 164. 



Stamens of wheat flowers, rapid 

 growth of filaments of, 304. 



Standard's Board for grain, 74- 

 75. 



Stanley wheat, origin of, 149. 



Steele, R. C, takes wheat in 

 1876 from Manitoba to On- 

 tario, 216. 



Stink-weed, introduction of, into 

 western Canada, 13. 



Stocktaking of grain, at terminal 

 elevators, 101-102. 



Stone Age, and agriculture, 278. 



Storage of wheat, in bulk, 93- 

 94. 



Strabo, mentions rust disease, 

 283. 



Straw, length of, for Marquis 

 wheat, 223; of Kitchener 

 wheat, 276; waste of, in west- 

 ern Canada, 46-47. 



Strothers, and origin of Red Fife 

 wheat, 206. 



Stuart, William, on Burbank'a 

 potato, 232-233. 



Stubble fields, wheat sown on, 43. 



Super wheat, Burbajik's, 234r- 

 235. 



Supply and demand, law of, af- 

 fects price of hard wheat, 200. 



Swabians, grow einkorn and em- 

 mer, 295. 



Swiss emigrants, at Red River 

 Settlement, 14, 19-20. 



Symes, inspector of wheat at 

 lake front, 96. 



