10 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 



the Indian climate have proved necessary and are being 

 introduced. 



III. Live-Stock. 



Cattle Breeding. As mentioned in last year's annual 

 report two herds are now being maintained at Pusa one of 

 selected Sanhiwal (Montgomery) cows and their descend- 

 ants, the other of cross-bred Avrshire- Sanhiwal cattle. 



As the breeding operations have since 1912 been based 

 entirely on the milk records of the females the initial steps 

 have been completed towards the building up of " milk 

 pedigree " but results will not be apparent until the calves 

 of the present generation have grown up. 



The cross-breeding operations with imported bulls must 

 be considered as purely experimental, the primary object 

 being to gain information regarding the transmission of 

 characters, valuable or otherwise, of the exotic breed. 



Sheep Breeding. The operations as described in last 

 year's report, viz., the crossing of local sheep with Merinos 

 with a view to gaining information regarding the inherit- 

 ance of wool characters, have been continued. There is 

 nothing to report as the second generation of cross-breds 

 has not yet been produced. 



IV. General. 



Drainage. A new protective drainage scheme has been 

 completed. The Pusa Estate has now been provided with 

 its own outlet to the river and a pumping station has been 

 erected to deal with excess water in times of high river 

 levels. 



The main drains of the low-lying area have been enlarg- 

 ed. New roads have been made to improve the shape of the 

 fields and a new field added to the experimental area. 

 Experiments in puddling rice land with steam disc har- 

 rows are in progress and arrangements have been made to 

 control the irrigation and drainage of the rice area, 



