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the best Pusa wheats. As far as quality only is concerned, 

 Indian wheats are somewhat inferior to Manitobas, but in 

 their greater dryness and in the greater thinness of the 

 skin our best Pusa wheats at least make up for their slight 

 lack of quality. As wheats are sold entirely on the appear- 

 ance of the samples taken from the ships, it is of the great- 

 est importance to the Indian wheat trade to keep the 

 various grades of Indian wheats separate and not to mix 

 red and white, hard and soft wheats in the same sample. 

 This lowers the price that would otherwise be obtained, 

 while adulteration with earth and other seeds does still 

 greater harm. I saw several good samples of Indian hard 

 white wheat at Mark Lane entirely spoiled by admixture 

 with soft white and red wheat and with dirt and other seeds. 

 A great work remains to be done in teaching the Indian 

 cultivator the great importance of quality, uniformity and 

 appearance in the wheat grown for sale in Europe. In 

 Liverpool, the Pusa wheats were greatly admired and were 

 shown to a meeting of Liverpool millers by Mr. Broomhall, 

 who, in returning the samples to me in London, wrote : " I 

 have just sent you back the samples you left with me. I 

 have shown them to several of our millers who have greatly 

 admired them. The wheat appears equal in value to the 

 best Manitoba." (Letter dated July 8th, 1910.) 



While at Liverpool the opportunity was taken of visit- 

 ing the large new Grain Elevator recently erected by the 

 Liverpool Grain Storage and Transit Company, which em- 

 bodies all the latest American and Canadian improvements 

 in construction. 



Tobacco. — In connection with the work in progress at 

 Pusa on the improvement of Indian tobacco, arrangements 

 were made with one of the Directors of the Imperial 

 Tobacco Company in London to visit two of the best fac- 

 tories in London to see the types of leaf made use of in 

 England. These visits were of the greatest use, and some 

 of the information obtained was applied in the tobacco- 

 curing experiments at Pusa during the past year. 



