10 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



2. Mr. Kali Prosanna Roy was sent by the Bengal 

 Government for agricultural training at Pusa. 



Tours. — Mr. Milligan visited Dacca and Sabour Farms 

 with the Officiating Agricultural Adviser to the Govern- 

 ment of India, in August; and Poona, Bombay, Ahmedabad 

 and Umballa to see dairies in September 1913. He also 

 attended the meetings of the Board of Agriculture at 

 Coimbatore in December 1913 and gave evidence before the 

 Public Services Commission on behalf of the Imperial 

 Department of Agriculture, at Bombay during February 

 1914. 



II. — Farm Cultivation. 



Character of the season. — The rains began with 7 inches 

 in May 1913. The monsoon was characterised by well dis- 

 tributed rainfall throughout, with very heavy falls in June 

 and August. The paddy crop was considerably damaged 

 by floods owing to the defective draining of the Estate. 

 Three-fourths of an inch of rain in the middle of October 

 and again in the middle of December, ensured heavy rabi 

 crops, which, however, suffered severely from a similar fall 

 accompanied by strong wind in the middle of February. 



Crop Experiments. — The experiments mentioned in 

 last year's report have been continued. 



Cultivation. — A Fowler's double engine steam cultiva- 

 tion tackle was obtained in September 1913 with a disc 

 plough, cultivator, harrow, and roller. 



The object of this new departure was not only the study 

 of the economics of steam cultivation, but also to enable the 

 Agriculturist to deal more effectively with the labour diffi- 

 culties incidental to the intensive cultivation, by means of 

 hired labour, of so large an area as is necessary to support 

 the Pusa herd of Montgomery Cattle. 



The farm is not an ideal one for steam cultivation, being 

 intersected by public roads which cut it up into irregularly- 

 shaped fields, but by taking the whole available area, squar- 

 ing up some of the fields, and abandoning odd corners, it 

 will be possible to eliminate most of the land that cannot be 



