28 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH: 



has been demonstrated that wheats of first-rate quality can 

 be grown under canal irrigation on the alluvium and also 

 on the black cotton soils of Peninsular India. 



During the past year the earlier results have received 

 important confirmation. Pusa wheat grown in the Indus 

 valley and on the black cotton soils has given better results 

 in the mill and bakehouse than the same variety grown 

 at Pusa. The general results are summed up in Mr. 

 Humphries' last report as follows : — 



' It has again been demonstrated that wheats of the 

 highest class can be grown in India on several kinds of soil, 

 and on land which has been irrigated. It has been shown 

 that the high excellence of quality possessed by wheats 

 grown at Pusa in previous seasons was not due to environ- 

 ment or agricultural practice, for the same varieties of 

 wheat have yielded still better results elsewhere. It is 

 interesting to note that this high excellence of quality was 

 found existing in wheats indigenous to India, and that in 

 the Pusa Nursery varieties, the progeny appear to possess 

 intact the great strength of the strong parents. I have no 

 doubt that any or all of the wheats tested will realize, some 

 at once, some later, relatively higher prices on our markets 

 than the existing Indian wheats of commerce. If these 

 new varieties yield no more grain and straw per acre than 

 those ordinarily grown, their extended distribution as seed 

 is desirable; if, in addition, the new varieties will yield 

 greater quantities of grain and straw than those ordinarily 

 grown, the position of the Indian grower will be greatly 

 improved, and the propagation of the new kinds should be 

 pressed forward-" 



The most important feature of this last series of tests 

 was the superiority, in the mill and bakehouse, of the sam- 

 ples of Pusa 12 from three stations in the Indus valley 

 (Lyallpur, Mirpurkhas and Gurdaspur) over those grown in 

 the Ganges valley. The significance of these results lies in 

 the fact that high grain quality can be obtained in all the 

 great wheat-growing tracts of India including the Punjab 



