INSTITUTE AND COLLEGE, PUSA, FOR 1907-09. H 



is being taken up in Tirhoot and Gujarat. The purely 

 experimental work on ^W-silk is almost completed. The 

 cultivation of mulberry silk has been taken up. 



The question of tussar silk is also being investigated. 



The cultivation of lac was continued at Pusa as a 

 demonstration to students and for much wider practical 

 application in villages. Some owners of indigo factories 

 in Behar have taken up lac cultivation on a fairly large 

 scale. These men were supplied with seed and informa- 

 tion, and their assistants were trained in lac culture. 

 Assistance was also given to the Bikanir State in regard to 

 the possibilities of lac culture there. 



Mr. Lefroy has started apiculture with a few stocks of 

 European bees to determine how far they thrive in the 

 plains of India. 



The Supernumerary Entomologist, Mr. Mason, visited 

 the various centres at which army stores are baled and 

 stored, to investigate the occurrence in clothing, etc., of the 

 destructive insect Anthrenus vorax. On the completion of 

 this enquiry recommendations were made for better baling. 

 Mr. Mason continued the enquiry into the value of insect 

 eating birds. 



The general collection of insects of India apart from 

 the purely economic one, has been completely arranged. 



Enquiry into the question of preventing the introduc- 

 tion of fungus and insect pests by importation of plants 

 and seeds was made in order to devise remedial measures 



The text-book on Indian Insect Pests continues to in- 

 crease in popularity. Its translation in Bengali has been 

 prepared. 



Mr. Lefroy's great work on Indian Insect Life has been 

 issued. 



A series of excellent coloured plates with short printed 

 explanations illustrating injurious insects, have been issued 

 for use in agricultural colleges, museums and farms and at 



