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Treasury during the year, being sale proceeds of silk made 

 at Pusa. 



In Madras a fieldman has been employed on special duty 

 on Sericulture in the Kollegal District ; he has given prac- 

 tical instruction to the mulberry-silkworm rearers and a 

 short vernacular leaflet with practical instructions for 

 rearing has been prepared. In Bihar, the rearing of eri 

 silkworms at Sabour was more successful during the year 

 under report than in the previous season ; eggs were distri- 

 buted to a large number of zamindars and cultivators in the 

 Bhagalpur District, but the usual difficulty was found 

 regarding the disposal of cocoons by the rearers on a small 

 scale. In the Central Provinces some univoltine seed, 

 received from Italy in October 1913, began to hatch in 

 December and the worms, which were reared from January 

 to April, throve well and the resultant eggs have been kept 

 in cold storage for the next season. In the United Pro- 

 vinces Mr. Akhtar Mohammad Khan has been on special 

 duty at Shahjehanpur in connection with the eri silk work 

 and in Assam Rai Bahadur B. C. Basu has been placed on 

 Special Sericultural duty. 



Lac. — During the two Lac seasons (October and June) 

 at Pusa, upwards of 200 Ber trees were inoculated and the 

 crop scraped, washed and sold. There were no students 

 for either course and this is doubtless due to the fact that 

 practical instructions have been given in the Bulletin on 

 " The Cultivation of Lac in the Plains of India," of which 

 the first edition of 1,500 copies was soon exhausted and a 

 second revised edition was prepared and issued during the 

 year; a Hindi edition is now in the press and an Urdu 

 edition is in preparation. Brood-lac was supplied to twelve 

 applicants and answers were sent by correspondence to 

 numerous inquirers in various parts of India. The Super- 

 intendent of Industries in Banganapalle State spent a week 

 at Pusa picking up details of the Lac work and was subse- 

 quently supplied with seed to commence work on an experi- 

 mental scale. The services of Mr. C. S. Misra were also 

 requisitioned by the Karauli State to start and supervise 



