Essays on Wheat: Including the Discovery and Introduction of Marquis Wheat, the Early History of Wheat-Growing in Manitoba, Wheat in Western Canada, ... the Wild Wheat of Palestine (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Essays on Wheat: Including the Discovery and Introduction of Marquis Wheat, the Early History of Wheat-Growing in Manitoba, Wheat in Western Canada, the Origin of Red Bobs and Kitchener, and the Wild Wheat of Palestine

Marquis Wheat is one of the most valuable food plants in the world. In the year 1917 upwards of bushels of it were raised in North America, and in 1918 upwards of bushels; and, owing to its high yield per acre, it was an important factor in assisting the Allies to overcome the food crisis in the darkest period of the war. The whole of the Marquis Wheat at present in existence originated from a single grain of wheat planted in an experimental plot at Ottawa by Dr. Charles E. Saunders so recently as the spring of 1903.

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