•8 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL AGRICULTURIST. 



(G. S. Henderson, N.D.A., N.D.D.) 



I. Charge and Staff. 



Charge. I held charge of the post of Imperial Agri- 

 culturist during the whole period under review. 



Staff. Mr. Deoki Nan dan, B.A., M.R.A.C. (Ciren- 

 cester), was appointed as Assistant to the Imperial Agri- 

 culturist on the 1st December, 1916. The First Farm 

 Overseer, Mr. Ikramuddin (with two months' privilege 

 leave), the Second Farm Overseer, Mr. Arjan Singh (with 

 one and a half months' privilege leave), and Mr. Judah 

 Hyam, Veterinary Overseer, remained as last year. Mr. 

 Joseph, the Second Veterinary Overseer, was on military 

 duty in Mesopotamia for four and a half months (from 7th 

 July to 19th December, 1916), assisting in the fly campaign 

 under Mr. Lefroy. 



Tourings A tour was made through the North- West 

 Frontier Province and one through the Punjab to see the 

 headquarter station of the Department and the American 

 cotton operations, also the salt lands of the Montgomery 

 District. Also a tour was carried out in Sind when a 

 number of problems connected with the proposed new Indus 

 barrage and irrigation problems were discussed with local 

 officers. 



II. Pusa Farm. 



A large part of the work of the Imperial Agriculturist 

 consists in the management of the Pusa Farm, in fact the 

 Madras and Bombay press critics of the last annual report 

 stated that the Imperial Agriculturist was simply a farm 

 bailiff. It is possible that, in the early stages of the deve- 

 lopment of Pusa, the Agricultural Section was over- 

 shadowed by the purely scientific sections and much of the 

 energy of the Section had to be expended in preparation and 

 bringing into cultivation of the estate and in other general 



