Short history of Prairie agriculture
Full details
| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | Searle Grain Company Ltd |
| Year of publication | 1954 |
| Languages | |
| Medium | Book |
| Edition | 1 |
| Topics | Cereal processes > Handling, storage & transport |
| Tags | |
| Scope & content | 28 chapters and a series of appendices with much economic data (see Divisions below) |
Copies held
Accession no. 230833
- Shelf location: B100-STR
- Donor: R Allan Forest
- Notes: Accompanied by a large 1963 map of Canada showing growing areas, storage facilites and shipping routes for West of Canada Grain. (Accession no 230834)
Divisions within this publication
- 1: The Beginnings
- 2: Settlement Before the Railways Came
- 3: The Coming of the Homesteaders
- 4: Early Transportation
- 5: Transcontinental Fever
- 6: The Drought Years
- 7: Times of Trouble
- 8: Some of the Factors Responsible for Western Canada's Development and Growth
- 9: Grain Merchants and Elevators
- 10: March of the Elevators
- 11: The First Royal Grain Commission
- 12: The Great Lakes (History)
- 13: The Great Lakes (Transportation and Terminal Elevators)
- 14: The West Coast, Churchill and Interior Elevators
- 15: Progress of Farm Population and Grain Production
- 16: Yield per Acre and Soil Fertility
- 17: Exports of Grain to World Wide Markets
- 18: Farmers' Discontents and Farm Organizations
- 19: The Canada Grain Act and the Board of Grain Commissioners
- 20: Services to Farmers
- 21: Further Services to Farmers
- 22: The Rust Research Laboratory and Scientists in Agriculture
- 23: The Farmer Selectors of New Varieties
- 24: Prairie Banking and Prairie Newspapers and Periodical-s
- 25: The Milling Industry and Livestock on the Prairies
- 26: Markets, Prices and Marketing
- 27: Prairie Soils
- 28: Prairie Women
- 29: Varieties of Wheat used by Farmers in Western Canada Since 1812
- 30: Names of Varieties with dates introduced in 1870 and after
- 31: Longtime Acreage, Yield and Production of Wheat
- 32: Longtime Acreage, Yield and Production of Barley
- 33: Longtime Acreage, Yield and Production of Oats
- 34: Precipitation over Prairie Provinces
- 35: Canadian Exports of Wheat, Oats and Barley
- 36: Canadian Wheat "Carry-Over"
- 37: The March of the Elevators-Prairie Provinces
- 38: Money Price of Wheat and Price Calculated to Purchasing Power from 1935-39
- 39: Chronological Table of Important Prairie Events 1615 to 1954
