The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it. During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if they were growers. (1)_________ The marketing of wheat became an increasing favorite topic of conversation. (2)_________ War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could not wait for (3)_________ market to improve. It had happened too often that they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts were coming due, (4)_________ just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. On various occasions, (5)_________ producer groups asked firmer control, but the government had no wish to (6)_________ become involving, at least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened (7)_________ to run wild. Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal (8)_________ government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with deliveries from the crop of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange trading was suspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle with the crop of (9)_________ 1919, the government appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to buy, sell, and set prices. (10)_________