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Station is being rapidly increased and by the end of 191T„ 

 it is expected that all possible requirements can be met. 



IV. Programme and publications. 



Programme of work for 1916-17, 



Work will be continued on the following crops on the- 

 lines indicated in the annual reports and in the publications 

 of the section — wheat, tobacco, gram, fibre plants, indigo,, 

 oil-seeds, fodder crops and fruit. 



Publications. 



The following papers were published during the year. 

 In order to bring the list up to date and to make it corre- 

 spond with this report, all papers in the press which are due 

 to appear before the end of July 1916, have been included. 

 The Urdu editions of three of the Quetta Bulletins were 

 prepared by members of the staff of this section : — 



1. Soil aeration in Agriculture. Bulletin 61, Agricultural 



Research Institute, Pusa, 1916. 



2. Soil ventilation. Bulletin 52, Agricultural Research Insti- 



tute, Pusa, Second Edition, 1916. 



3. Soil Erosion and Surface drainage. Bulletin 53, Agricul- 



tural Research Institute, Pusa, Second Edition, 1916. 



4. Report on Agricultural Botany for 1914-15, for the Board 



of Scientific Advice. 



5. The importance of soil ventilation on the alluvium. A paper 



read at the Indian Science Congress, Lucknow, 1916, and 

 published in the special Congress number of the Agricul- 

 tural Journal of India, 1916. 



6. The Application of Botanical Science to Agriculture. A 



paper read at the Indian Science Congress, Lucknow, 1916, 

 and published in the special Congress number of the Agri- 

 cultural Journal of India, 1916. 



T. The manurial value of potsherds. Agricultural Journal of 

 India, Vol. XI, Part 3, 1916. 



8. Some improvements in the packing and transport of fruit 

 in India. Bulletin 2, Fruit Experiment Station, Quetta,. 

 Second Edition, revised, 1915. 



