LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 



BOTaM. aL 



REPORT 



OF THE 



AoTiciiltural Researcli Institute and 



College, Piisa 



{Including Re'port of the Imferial Cotton Specialist ) 



1907-09 



INTRODUCTORY. 



rp HE reports of the Director and heads of sections of 

 -*- the Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, and of the 

 Cotton Specialist for the years 1907-09, are herewith 

 published. The period ends on the 30th June 1909. 



The Institute was opened for advanced students only in 

 July 1908. Before this 22 probationers came from various 

 provinces for technical training in various sections, to 

 adapt them for work of a very practical kind in the pro- 

 vinces concerned. 



It has been definitely settled that Pusa shall chiefly 

 be a higher teaching institution with post-graduate studies 

 principally for selected graduates of provincial agricul- 

 tural colleges and distinguished science graduates of 

 Indian universities. Arrangements have, however, been 

 made, for the time being, to give in agriculture, economic 

 botany and entomology, short courses particularly in regard 

 to the practical application of these sciences to every-day 

 agriculture or horticulture in India. I attach great value 



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