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Programme of work jor 1911-12. — 1. The work on the 

 availability of plant food in soils will be continued. 



2. In relation to moisture requirements of crops, the 

 current work has to do with the moisture conditions neces- 

 sary to a green manure crop. 



3. The investigation on Usar will be continued on the 

 lines indicated in the body of this report. 



4. The chemistry and manufacture of Date Palm Sugar 

 will be investigated by the Supernumerary Agricultural 

 Chemist. 



5. Improvements in the refining of saltpetre will con- 

 tinue to be studied. 



6. Education. — This requires no special comment and 

 will be conducted according; to the lines laid down. 



Publications. — The following papers have been pub- 

 lished : — 



Memoir No. 10, '' Tbe Water Eequirements of Crops in Indio — 

 II," by Dr. T. Walter Leather, Tune 1911. 



Bulletin No. 24, ''The Indian Saltpetre Industry," by 

 Dr. J. A¥alter Leather and Babu Jatindra Nath Mukerji, 

 August 1911. 



" Sugar-cane in India," published in the Agricultural Journal 

 of India, Vol. YI, Part III, by Dr. J. Walter Leather. 



'' Chapter on Industrial and Agricultural Chemistry " for the 

 Report of Board of Scientific Advice, by Mr. D, Hooper 

 and Dr. J. Walter Leather, Kr09-10. 



" The Loss of Water from Soils during Dry Weather." Re- 

 port of the Seventh International Congress of Applied 

 Chemistry, by Dr. J. Walter Leather, 1911. 



" The Transpiration of Water by Plants in the Tropics." 

 Report of the Seventh International Congress of Applied 

 Chemistry, by Dr. J. Walter Leather, 1911. 



" The Effect of Manure on the Composition of the Grain of 

 Field Crops." Report of the Seventh International Con- 

 gress of Applied Chemistry, by Dr. J. Walter Tieather, 

 1911. 



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