INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1916-17 85 



ment, visited the Silk Holise. The members of the Indus- 

 trial Commission, who visited the Silk House, were much 

 interested in the reeling and weaving work. 



Mulberry silkworm eggs were sent to the Travancore, 

 Mysore, Banganapalle, Bhopal, Rewah, Inciore, Gwalior, 

 Poonch (Kashmir) and Jodhpur States, to the Deputy 

 Director of Agriculture and Land Records, Coorg, to the 

 different silk centres of the Salvation Army and to the Tiflis 

 Sericultural Station (Caucasus). Eri eggs were supplied 

 to one hundred applicants and mulberry eggs to ninety-one 

 applicants. Eri and Mulberry seed cocoons were sent to 

 the Director, Entomological Section, Cairo (Egypt). Mul- 

 berry cuttings and seeds were supplied to the Director of 

 Agriculture, Burma, and to the Agricultural Officer, North- 

 West Frontier Province, respectively. Castor and Mul- 

 berry seeds, Mulberry cuttings and samples of different 

 kinds of silk were distributed to many inquirers. Instruc- 

 tions for rearing, reeling, dyeing, bleaching and spinning 

 were given by correspondence. Univoltine Mulberry silk- 

 worm eggs were sent to Shillong, Muktesar and Guindy 

 (Madras) for cold storage and gave satisfactory results on 

 rearing in November and March. 



We at last seem to have succeeded in establishing a 

 multivoitine hybrid race, the yield of silk of which is about 

 75 per cent, more than the multivoitine races gene- 

 rally reared in Bengal. All the eggs of the last three gene- 

 rations of this race have hatched like the eggs of multi- 

 voitine races and it is hoped that they will continue to do 

 so in future. The time has perhaps come to introduce the 

 race in the various rearing centres. 



About 19 different varieties of Mulberry trees have been 

 planted and consignments of leaves, flowers and fruits of 

 some of them have been sent for identification to the Econo- 

 mic Botanist of the Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta. 

 Silk Exhibits were sent to the Bengal Art Exhibition, 

 Darjiling, the Mysore Dasara Exhibition, and to the Burma 

 Exhibition held in Rangoon in connection with the 

 Viceroy's visit. A Silver Medal was awarded from the 

 Darjiling Exhibition and honourable mention was made 



