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The outstanding feature of the work of the last year has 

 been the demonstration of the fact that one of the new 

 wheats, No. 12, is the best for general cultivation both in 

 the Gangetic plain and also on the black soils of Peninsular 

 India. This wheat has also given satisfactory returns, 

 both as regards yield and quality, in the barani tracts of 

 the Punjab where it is now being grown by the cultivators. 

 The behaviour of this variety is of the greatest importance 

 in the work of improving the wheats of India. Judged by 

 the returns obtained by the people themselves, not only in 

 almost every District from Gurdaspur in the Punjab 

 through the United Provinces to Bhagalpur in Bihar, but 

 also on the black soils in Bundelkhand and in the Central 

 Provinces, this wheat has invariably given the highest 

 yield. At the same time, it has been demonstrated that its 

 milling and baking qualities have been maintained unim- 

 paired, both under barani conditions and also under canal 

 and well irrigation. In addition to the satisfactory yield, 

 the numerous trials of Pusa 12 by the cultivators in the 

 United Provinces, during the last wheat season, have 

 brought out the fact that it is able to maintain itself with 

 far less water than late sorts like MuzafTarnagar, which 

 need at least one more watering. Pusa 12 is a red chaffed 

 wheat with good straw and its characteristic appearance in 

 the field is of considerable advantage in the work of replac- 

 ing the country wheats, which for the most part are shorter 

 in the straw and have white chaff. The grain is white in col- 

 our and larger and more attractive than MuzafTarnagar, 

 A single improved grade of white wheat can now be grown 

 over a very large portion of the wheat-growing area of 

 India. This will be an enormous advantage to the export 

 trade and at the same time will be of great use from the 

 point of view of the food of the people. For local consump- 

 tion, Pusa 12 is worth at least two annas a maund more 

 than ordinary Indian wheat. 



Pusa 12, when placed on the Calcutta market for the 

 first time this year, found a ready market at the mills and 

 fetched four annas a maund above Bihar wheats on its 



