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.\griciiJtnre, Punjab, has hjeen transferred to this Institute 

 to take up the post of the Imperial Agrieulturist. l^r- 

 joined the appointment on May 8th, 1012 Mr. H. 

 Southern, Supernumerary Agriculturist, who had teen 

 officiating Deputy Director of Agriculture, Madras, was 

 transferred to the Punjab in April last to take up the ap- 

 pointment vacated by Mr. Milligan. Mr. G. D. Mehta was 

 appointed Supernumerary Agriculturist on 4th June 1911. 

 Until 30th May 1912 he was working at Poona under the 

 Government of Bombay and from that date he has been 

 posted to the Central Provinces for training. Messrs. 

 W. S. McGowan and Thomas Gilbert were appointed 

 Supernumerary Agriculturists on 23rd February' 1912. 

 The former is posted to Bihar and Orissa to act as Professor 

 of Agriculture at the Agricultural College, Sabour, and the 

 latter is working under the Government of Bombay. 



3. Agriculture. — The rainfall during the year amounted 

 to 56-30 inches. The monsoon arrived earlv and gave a 

 plentiful rainfall. Floods, however, damaged the kharif 

 crops, while late rain retarded the sowing of the rahi crop. 

 The permanent manurial and rotation experiments started 

 in 1908 with the object of studying the maintenance of the 

 fertility of the soil have been continued. It is too soon yet 

 to expect definite results from these experiments. The im- 

 provement of the sugar-cane crop on the ridge and furrow 

 system combined with intertillage has been taken up and 

 promises to be an important advance upon the methods in 

 vogue in Xorth India. It is proposed to apply the same 

 svstem in a modified form to Fome of the kharif crops such 

 as maize, which have already shown great improvement 

 from liberal spacing and intertillage as well as from the 

 free drainage induced by ridging. Among the use of che- 

 mical manures the application of crude sulphate of soda to 

 paddy gave an increase of 17 maunds of grain })er acre. 

 This is a preliminary result requiring confirmation. The 

 application of green manuring with son hemp combined 

 with the moderate application of superphosphate at the 

 time of sowing the san continues to give good results and is 



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