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Mr. Cloiiston, and when the best method <^f enriching the 

 soil by green manuring has been worked out I feel confident 

 that wheat growing in this and similar tracts will at once 

 be placed on a higher plane. In consequence of the satis- 

 factory results obtained at Raipur, arrangements have been 

 made with Mr. Evans at Hoshangabad for the trial of one 

 of the earliest of Pusa wheats at that station. In the 

 United Provinces the methods of cultivation of wheats 

 which have proved successful at Pusa were tried on a large 

 scale in the botanical area at Cawnpore by Mr. H. Martin 

 Leake, Economic Botanist to the Government of the United 

 Provinces. Both in yield and appearance of the grain the 

 results obtained were very much better than those realised 

 in the district. The Cawnpore results are particularly 

 valuable, as they indicate the possibility of growing large 

 yields of wheat of high quality under canal irrigation. At 

 the Aligarh experiment station Dr. Parr, Deputy Director 

 of Agriculture, United Provinces, obtained very high yields 

 with one of the Pusa selections and has arranged for ex- 

 tended trials of this wheat in his circle during the next 

 year. Arrangements for the trials of Pusa wheats next 

 year have been made at Mirpurkhas in Sind and in the 

 Punjab at Lyallpur and Gurdaspur. 



A considerable demand for the new wheats has arisen 

 from Australia in consequence of the satisfactory behavi- 

 our of the Indian samples grown there in 1909. In the 

 same year a small sample of Pusa 6 was tried in Hungary 

 with the result that 16 maunds of this variety were asked 

 for by and supplied to the Minister of Agriculture of 

 Austria-Hungary m April last. 



One result of the wheat investigations, which is of consi- 

 derable importance to India and to the future policy of the 

 Agricultural Department, deserves special notice. This 

 is the value of the variety of a crop when it stands alone. 

 It is sometimes thought that in the case of crops improved 

 varieties can be produced of such excellence that when dis- 

 tributed to cultivators greatly improved yields will result, 

 no matter what the methods of cultivation adopted by the 



