12 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL AGRICULTURAL 



CHEMIST. 



(J. Walter Leather, V.D., F.I.C.) 



I. Administration and Tours. 



Charge. The section was in my charge during the 

 whole year. 



Establishment. Mr. Jatindranath Sen, the Super- 

 numerary Agricultural Chemist, was posted to work at 

 Sabour from September 1914. 



Babu Surendra Lai Das Gupta, M.Sc, was appointed 

 a probationary assistant on 6th February 1915 and he 

 promises to prove a useful addition to the staff. 



Babu Debendra Nath Chatter jee has been transferred 

 to the office of the Chemical Examiner and Bacteriologist, 

 United Provinces, from 7th June 1915. 



Babu Mahabir Prasad was appointed a probationary 

 assistant from 6th April 1915, but has reverted to the Edu- 

 cation Department of the United Provinces. 



Mr. G. K. Lele was dismissed in November 1914. 



Tours. The following tours were made by me : — 



1. September 1st to 9th. To Indore to advise as to 



the nature of the local soils. 



2. September 12th to October 18th. Hill recess, when 



a memoir on Soil Temperatures was written. 



3. November 4th to 20th. Tests of the freezing points 



of milks were made at the military dairies at 

 Lucknow and Allahabad. I also attended the 

 camp-of-exercise of the United Provinces 

 Horse. 



4. December 29th to January 10th. I visited 



Peshawar in order to test sugarcane at the time 

 it was put into clamps. 



5. March 13th to 28th. I visited Peshawar again to 



test the sugarcane when being taken out of the 

 clamps, 



