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appearance alone. This fact is promising from the point 

 of view of the first shipment of this wheat to Great Britain. 

 The distribution of Pusa 12 to cultivators is now bein«; 

 actively taken up by the Agricultural Departments of the 

 United Provinces, the Punjab, Bihar and Central Provinces 

 and all the available seed has been distributed. The supply, 

 however, was far below the demand and, in particular, the 

 indents from the United Provinces could only in part be 

 met. Steps have been taken to remedy this and it is 

 expected that the seed farms in Bihar and some of the 

 indigo estates will be able to provide about 10,000 maunds 

 of Pusa 12 in April 1915 to supplement the general seed 

 supply of the Agricultural Department. On the indigo 

 estates in Bihar, Pusa wheats are now almost exclusively 

 grown and wheats like Muzaffarnagar have been given up. 



A beginning has been made during the present year in 

 the work of growing sufficient Pusa 12 at a few centres in 

 the Central Circle of the United Provinces so that the sur- 

 plus can be sent as a special shipment to England for the 

 purpose of introducing this wheat on the Home markets. 

 The co-operation of Mr. B. C. Burt, the Deputy Director of 

 Agriculture, has been secured in this matter and the neces- 

 sary financial assistance has been given by His Honour the 

 Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces and by the 

 Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India. By 

 taking advantage of the development of the Co-operative 

 movement in this Circle, it is hoped to replace systemati- 

 cally, from certain centres, the country wheats by Pusa 12 

 over large areas. The experiment is an interesting one, not 

 only from the point of view of the trade in an improved 

 product, but also as a means of discovering how far the 

 Co-operative movement can be used in the distribution of 

 an improved variety in a systematic way. 



Another aspect of the success of Pusa 12 over so large a 

 portion of the wheat-growing area of India remains to be 

 considered. It is sometimes stated that the agricultural 

 conditions vary so much in India from province to pro- 

 vince and also in different parts of the same province, that 



