INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1916-17 3 



Mycological Section from the 1st to 27th June, 

 1917. 



Mr. R. K. Parmeshwaram Pillai, Manager, Silk Farm, 

 Trivandrum, deputed by the Travancore State 

 for a course in sericulture, has been under train- 

 ing from the 16th February, 1917. 



Six students took the short course in sericulture during 

 the year. Two of these completed their train- 

 ing. 



III. Publications. 



The Agricultural Journal of India, Scientific Memoirs 

 and Bulletins continued to be issued during the year. The 

 Department published during the year 11 Memoirs and 11 

 Bulletins; 7 Memoirs, a similar number of Bulletins, and 

 the Proceedings of the Mycological and Entomological Con- 

 ference (1917) are in the press. A Guide to the Agricultur- 

 al Section of the Pusa Institute and a booklet on the Im- 

 portance of Bacterial Action in Indigo Manufacture were 

 also issued during the year. A Bulletin (No. 75) on the 

 Pebrine Disease of Silkworms in India has been exten- 

 sively distributed free to silkworm rearers and those in- 

 terested in sericulture in India, It recommends a modifi- 

 cation of the Pasteur method which, as used hitherto in 

 India, has failed to eliminate the pebrine disease, one of 

 the principal causes of the decline of the Indian silk 

 industry. It is gratifying to note a steadily increasing 

 demand from the public for the bulletins and as a result it 

 was necessary to reprint during the year the bulletins on 

 Sericulture and on Soil Ventilation and Soil Erosion. 



A special number of the Agricultural Journal of India 

 was issued including papers read at the Agricultural Sec- 

 tion of the Fourth Indian Science Congress held at Banga- 

 lore in January, 1917. 



The grant of Rs. 29,000 permanently sanctioned for 

 publications was continued during the year under report. 

 The Publication Section has been reorganized and 

 strengthened. 



