INDEX 



337 



crop of, average in western 

 Canada, 254; crop of, in 1821, 

 14; crosses of, with rye, 266; 

 cutting of (Fig. 5), 45; de- 

 stroyed by hail, 48 ; east-bound 

 movement of, 50; effect of ris- 

 ing price of, 121-122; effect of 

 war on, 118-129; estimating 

 moisture in, 89; evolution of, 

 from wild ancestors, 294r-295; 

 export of, in 1913, 39; export 

 of, in 1915-1916, 40; famine 

 price of, in 1826, 19; first ex- 

 port of, from Manitoba, 30; 

 flowing property of, 53, 57 ; 

 futures, 109-110; future trad- 

 ing in, prevented, 126; general 

 importance of improvement in, 

 230; gigantic mouoply in, 126; 

 grinding of, for Hudson's Bay 

 Company, 23; harvesting of, 

 in western Canada, 46, 47 ; 

 heading out of, 46 ; heated, 7 1 ; 

 highest prices at Chicago and 

 Minneapolis, 124, 125; highest 

 prices at the Winnipeg Grain 

 Exchange, 121 ; high yield of 

 and earliness of, antagonistic 

 qualities, 185; hoeing of, 2; 

 how shipped at lake front, 63 ; 

 in box-cars, 57—59; in census 

 of 1822, 16; in country eleva- 

 tors, 56; in 1813, supposed 

 high yield of, 4; in flat ware- 

 houses, 55; in lake steamers, 

 65-66; in sample markets, 69- 

 70; in western Canada, 35— 

 141 ; inspection of, 75-93 ; late- 

 sown in 1822, 20; milling and 

 baking properties of, 72; mix- 

 ing of grades prevented, 126; 

 moisture in, 71; natural 

 crosses of, 265-267 ; new seed 

 from the United States in 

 1820, 12-13; not descended 



from eiulcom, 297 ; per capita 

 production and use of, 39 ; pop- 

 ulation of, in a field, mixed, 

 224; price variations of, 106- 

 107 ; prices of, at grain ex- 

 changes, 116, 121, 124-125; 

 prices fixed by Hudson's Bay 

 Company, 22 ; prices of differ- 

 ent grades, 93; quality of, 

 198-100; rapid loading of into 

 steamers, 6 1 ; regulation of 

 price of, 125-129 ; removal 

 from farms of, 47-48 ; research 

 work on qualities of grain, 

 103; sampling of, 79-81, 84- 

 87 ; setting dockage of, 88 ; 

 silver watch exchanged for, 

 14; smutted, 71; sown in 

 1812 and 1813 at Red River 

 Settlement, 1 ; sown with 

 drills, 45; standard samples 

 of, 87 ; successful harvest of, 

 in 1815, 6; the Great Funnel, 

 49-51; the hour-glass, 14-15; 

 the wheat clock, 117-118; time 

 of pollination of, 305 ; tough 

 and damp, 104; variations pro- 

 duced by crossing, 150; want 

 of uniformity in, 162; winter, 

 in western Canada, 41-42; 

 yield per acre in various coun- 

 tries, 38. 



Wheat-breeders, and the chewing 

 test, 202. 



Wheat-breeding, attitude of Sea- 

 ger Wheeler towards, 273; 

 success of, in Canada, 256 ; 

 work of W. Saunders upon, 

 144-151. 



Wheat Export Company, activity 

 of, in 1916-1917, 120-122; 

 origin of the, 120; president of 

 the, 128. 



Wheat-growing, chief difficulties 

 of, 48; in the far North, 181- 



