4 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 



Mr. Awati worked in the laboratory of the Pathologi- 

 cal Entomologist for some time at the taxono- 

 mies of Muscidce. 



III. Publications. 



The Agricultural Journal of India, Scientific Memoirs 

 and Bulletins continued to be issued during the year. The 

 Department published during the year 13 Memoirs and 14 

 Bulletins. Of these a fair number was contributed by the 

 Provincial Departments. The memoirs continued to main- 

 tain their standard of excellence and were much in request 

 from scientific institutions abroad. The bulletins containing 

 matters more of practical than scientific interest continued 

 to be in good demand particularly in India. They covered 

 a large range of subjects such as sugarcane crushing, sugar 

 machinery and manufacture, bee-keeping, improvement of 

 indigo cultivation and sericulture. Among these bulletins 

 four were contributed by the Provincial Departments and 

 one containing notes on sugar machinery and manufacture 

 in Northern India is a report by Mr. Peter Abel, an autho- 

 rity on the manufacture of sugar, who toured in this coun- 

 try with a view to advise the Government of India in con- 

 nection with sugar matters generally. The grant for pub- 

 lications amounting to Rs. 29,000 has been made perma- 

 nent. It has been decided to publish a revised edition of 

 the Manual of More Deadly Forms of Cattle Disease in 

 India. This useful manual was last revised in 1903, and 

 opportunity has been taken to bring it up to date and to 

 practically rewrite it. This will considerably add to its 

 utility. 



As in the last two years, strictest economy was exercised 

 with the result that it was possible to keep down expendi- 

 ture within the sanctioned grant. But as the superior staff 

 of the Department capable of making original investiga- 

 tions is continually increasing, the volume of matter offered 

 for publication will tend to increase when the present grant 

 will be found inadequate. 



