4b REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



three estates next year for seed purposes. This arrange- 

 ment ensures the expansion of the work at practically no 

 cost to Government while the estates where the crop is 

 grown to perfection will also serve as demonstration areas 

 and local seed farms for the cultivators in the neighbour- 

 hood. The various wheats grown will be maintained at 

 Pusa in pure culture and whenever necessary the seed farms 

 will be re-stocked with fresh seed. 



In the United Provinces the distribution of seed is 

 being carried out under the direction of Mr. Leake who 

 has arranged to grow about one hundred acres at Cawn- 

 pore and Aligarh. 



In the Central Provinces the work of seed distribution 

 is in the hands of Mr. Clouston, the Deputy Director of 

 Agriculture, who is growing Pusa wheats on a large scale 

 at liaipur and Tharsa. Mr. Evans proposes to try one of 

 the early maturing wheats (No. 4) in the Jubbulpore 

 District. 



At Pusa, during the past year, the amount of the seed 

 distributed from the botanical area was 250 maunds. In 

 future the chief work at this centre will be confined to 

 keeping the various kinds pure and to growing sufficient 

 seed for demonstration purposes and for re-stocking peri- 

 odically the various seed farms. In addition, a consider- 

 able area of wheat land will be taken up by the numerous 

 cultures in connection with the selection and hybridization 

 work in progress and with variety trials. 



The Influence of the Environment on Quality. 



An important stage has been reached in the experiments 

 on the influence of environment on the milling and baking 

 qualities of wheat. These investigations are being con- 

 ducted in collaboration with Mr. Leake and the results 

 obtained up to the rahi season of 1910-11 have been in- 

 corporated in a paper which is now being printed. The 

 object of these experiments is to discover to what extent 

 high quality in grain is possible in the various wheat-grow- 

 ing tracts of India and for this purpose various pure lines 



