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to the Government of the United Provinces) was secured 

 and extended trials of the Pusa wheats have been carried 

 out during the past three years at Cawnpore. The results 

 obtained were most satisfactory. In the first place, it was 

 found that yields over 2,200 lbs. per acre and in one case 

 as high as 2,500 lbs. could be obtained with one watering, 

 that is, with one-third the water usually employed by the 

 cultivators in the neighbourhood. In the second place, the 

 appearance and milling and baking qualities of the 

 wheats were at least equal to those grown at Pusa under 

 barani conditions. This was the verdict of Mr. Humphries, 

 who, in 1911, tested the same kinds grown at Cawnpore 

 under canal irrigation and at Pusa as a dry crop. During 

 the last rabi season, one of the Pusa wheats was grown at 

 Cawnpore without any irrigation water at all and a yield 

 of 1,650 lbs. to the acre was obtained, a remarkable result 

 in a canal-irrigated tract. 



The Cawnpore trials, which had extended over three 

 seasons and which were uniformly successful, were repeated 

 on a small scale on the Aligarh Farm in 1910-11 and again 

 in 1911-12 on a large scale by Dr. Parr, Deputy Director of 

 Agriculture. The yields obtained during the last season 

 are given in the table below. 



Trial of Pusa wheat at Aligarh, 1911-12. 



Name. 



Yield in lbs. per acre. 



During the last rahi season the Pusa wheats have been 

 grown on a considerable scale by the tenants of the Court 



