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Indian Tea Association and Agents of various Tea Com- 

 panies on the subject of green manuring, and to advise the 

 Secretary, Ballygunge Cricket Club, on the subject of 

 renovating turf. 



To Bara-Chakia to obtain samples of Filter Press Mud 

 and information as to amount available for use as manure. 



The Supernumerary Agricultural Bacteriologist weDt 

 also on tour to Bangalore in connection with examination 

 of soils for Azotobacter and also to Darjeeling to attend 

 the Cattle show and to ascertain the dairy conditions in 

 the Darjeeling District. 



II. — Training. 



Mr. Barkat Ali, Assistant to the Agricultural Chemist 



to the Government of the Punjab, continued his course of 



training in Soil Bacteriology, specializing in examination 



of ' Reh " soils from the Punjab. ITe will complete the 



two years' course in August. 



Mr. D. V. Bal, Assistant to the Agricultural Chemist 

 to the Government of the Central Provinces, is undergoing 

 a revisionary course of chemical analysis in the Chemical 

 Section preliminary to taking a course in Soil Bacteriology 

 in this section. 



III. — Soil Bacteriology. 



The principal subject upon which work has been done 

 in this section during the past year has been the use of 

 green manuring, with special reference to the addition of 

 nitrogen to the soil by this means and the availability or 

 otherwise of this element when so added. The scheme of 

 experiment as originally designed was intended to extend 

 over a period of three successive seasons; interim annual 

 reports were to be issued in the form of Bulletins, the final 

 report to appear as a Memoir embodying the results and 

 conclusions from the whole period. The first season's 

 results were published as a bulletin and those of the second 

 year are ready for publication in the same form ; it appears 

 doubtful whether it will be advisable to conclude the experi- 

 ments with those of the current or third year as it is abun- 



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