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were continued. The number of students admitted to the 

 various sections for these courses was as follows : — Six in 

 fruit-growing, eighteen in silk-culture, ten in lac culti- 

 vation, nine in cattle breeding and management, three in 

 poultry management and three in tillage implements and 

 agricultural machinery. The students for these courses 

 came from different parts of India and some of them took 

 up more tlian one subject. 



6. Publications. — This work has been continued. 

 During the year under report two new books, one " Indian 

 Insect Life " by Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy, Imperial Entomo- 

 logist, assisted by Mr. F. M. Howlett, Second Imperial 

 Entomologist, and the other " Wheat in India " by Mr. A. 

 Howard, Imperial Economic Botanist, and Mrs. Howard, 

 were puljlished in addition to the Agricultural Journal of 

 India, tlie Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in 

 India, J^ulletins and Leaflets. 



7. Library. — The revised catalogue of the library is 

 still in the press. Over a thousand volumes have been 

 ciddcd to the library during the year. 



8. General Health of the Station. — The general health 

 of the station during the year under report was good, ex- 

 cepting in the monsoon period. Relief was afforded in the 

 hospital to 6,231 new cases, of which 6,015 were treated in 

 the outdoor department and 216 admitted as indoor pati- 

 ents. These figures show an increase of 2,918 and 112 

 respectively over last year's totals. The increase in attend- 

 ance was due to the greater prevalence of malarial and 

 allied fevers during the months of July, August and Sep- 

 trm})or, 1909. 99 cases amongst European officers and 

 their families were attended to. 



Tlic daily average number of patients treated was 696 

 indoor and 4897 out-door as against 468 and 25-05 respect- 

 ively during the previous 12 months. 



Five deaths occurred in hospital — two cases from pneu- 

 monia in aged and del)ilitated subjects, one from malarial 

 cachexia and two from Kala-Azar. 



