dc.description | This one page article gives the history of Canadian wheat. The Story of Canadian Wheat" was the subject of the Hilgendorf Memorial Lecture delivered at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, New Zealand by Dr. E S. A Archibald, Director of Experimental Farm Services
of the Department of Agriculture, Canada, upon the occassion of the 7th Pacific Science Congress in Auckland and Christ Church N.Z. It carries the story of Canadian wheat growing from Canada's first farmer, Monsieur Louis Hebert, 1623, to the early wheat growing trials in the Red River Valley (of the North) in 1812 down to 1885. | |