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scale. A large number of visitors saw this estate during 

 the year and this method of drainage is now being taken up 

 in Bihar. His Highness the Maharajah of Darbhanga is 

 showing a personal interest in this matter and a beginning 

 has been made on several of his estates. In this work 

 Mr. R. S. King, Sub-Manager of the Jhanjharpur Circle of 

 the Raj, is taking the keenest interest both in local drainage 

 schemes on the Darbhanga properties and also in the scheme 

 for the preparation of a contour survey of North Bihar. In 

 the United Provinces, the Pusa method of drainage has 

 been adopted at two centres and results similar to those in 

 Bihar have been obtained. 



Perhaps the most notable advance in drainage in Bihar 

 during the year is the fact that the Commissioner and the 

 District Embankment Committees of the Tirhoot Division 

 are taking up the question of the general drainage of Bihar 

 on the basis of a drainage map, constructed on the lines of 

 the system introduced by the late Sir Edward Buck. A 

 joint meeting of the District Embankment Committees of 

 the Division was held at Muzaffarpur in December 1915 

 when the general lines of future work on this subject were 

 discussed. 



III. The Development of the Agriculture of 



Baluchistan. 



Although started for local objects, the foundation of 

 the Fruit Experiment Station at Quetta has led to the dis- 

 covery of results of considerable importance to Indian 

 Agriculture. These apply particularly to the irrigated 

 tracts of India and are concerned with the saving of water 

 in wheat-growing and with improved methods of growing 

 fodder crops. 



Water-saving. 



The earlier results on water-saving in wheat-growing 

 were published during the year in Bulletin No. 4 of the 

 Quetta series. In this paper, the opportunity was taken 

 of stating very briefly the main principles on which the 

 right use of irrigation water depends. A careful com- 



