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grown at Pusa during the past wheat season. A duplicate 

 set of these seeds was also successfully grown for us at the 

 Cawnpore Experiment Station by Mr. H. Martin Leake, 

 Economic Botanist to the Government of the United 

 Provinces. Now that the difficulty of growing the first 

 generation in India has been overcome, it is expected that 

 among the progeny of these crosses wheats will be isolated 

 of much greater rust-resistance than any of the types now 

 grown in India. The work will be pushed on as rapidly as 

 ])nssible, and it is hoped before very long to have the results 

 on a field scale. 



Advantage was taken of my visit to England to consult 

 with Mr. A. E. Humphries, Past President of the Incor- 

 porated National Association of British and Irish Millers, 

 on many matters connected with the milling and baking 

 qualities of Indian wheat and to go over in detail the 

 samples sent to England for testing in 1910. I obtained a 

 large amount of valuable technical information on the 

 quality of wheat and also took full opportunity of discuss- 

 ing in detail the lines of future work on the improvement 

 of Indian wheat. I consider Pusa has been exceedingly 

 fortunate in securing for the milling and baking tests not 

 only the invaluable assistance of an authority of the stand- 

 ing of Mr. Humphries in the wheat trade, but also his 

 active interest in the work of improving the crop in India. 

 T consider it will be far better in every way to continue to 

 have the final tests of Indian wheats done in England than 

 to attempt to carry out the work at Pusa under laboratory 

 conditions. Results obtained under such circumstances in 

 India will never carry the same weight as the opinion of 

 the best available expert in the milling and baking trade. 



In order to compare the appearance of the new Pusa 

 wheats with those now on the market from various parts of 

 the world, I visited Mark Lane with Mr. Humphries and 

 the Liverpool Corn Exchange with Mr. Broomhall, the pro- 

 prietor of the Corn-Trade News and Milling. It was 

 acknowledged that there were no wheats on the market 

 superior in combined appearance, quality and condition to 



