L'G REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL ECONOMIC 



BOTANIST 



(A. Howard, M.A., A.R.C.S., F.L.S.) 



I. — Teaching, Training and Staff. 



Charge. — I held charge of the section at Pusa during 

 the year under review till April 28th, when I took six 

 months' combined leave. The Second Assistant, Maulvi 

 Abdur Rahman Khan, was placed in charge of the current 

 work of the section at Pusa, and the Third Assistant, 

 Munshi Ijaz Husain, was placed in charge at Quetta dur- 

 ing my absence. 



Students. — One advanced student from the Madras 

 Agricultural College worked in the section from October 

 1st, 1912, to the end of April 1913. He has, I understand, 

 since obtained an appointment at Coimbatore in the Pro- 

 vincial Agricultural Department. 



Staff. — The work of the staff continues to be satis- 

 factory. The Second Assistant has done excellent work 

 at Pusa while the Third Assistant at Quetta has done well. 

 The two fieldmen, Sarup Singh and Ram Pershad, and the 

 clerk, Babu Ram Nechhawar Lai, worked well during the 

 year. 



II. — Wheat Investigations. 



The wheat investigations continue to extend and during 

 the past year results of considerable value have been 

 obtained. 



Distribution of Pusa Wheats in India. 



The growth of Pusa wheats in the various wheat-grow- 

 ing tracts of India has now emerged from the experimental 

 stage and the distribution of seed is in progress on a large 

 scale in Bihar, the United Provinces, Central Provinces 

 and, to a limited extent, in the barani tracts of the Punjab. 



