INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1916-17 



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work for the common good. It is now possible, however, to 

 carry out the purely agricultural work separately, and it is 

 proposed to work the greater part of the farm on a purely 

 commercial basis and give figures of profit and loss. The 

 demonstration of the working of a large general farm on 

 modern lines with up-to-date machinery is of the utmost 

 importance. Scientific research must be translated into 

 agricultural practice, and agricultural technique for large 

 holdings has seldom due importance attached to it in India. 

 Non-agricultural work such as conservancy, roads and 

 sectional buildings, etc., has been put under the Assistant 

 Xo the Agricultural Adviser, so the results of the purely 

 agricultural work will not be complicated with extraneous 

 matter. 



The results of the farm work are capable of general 

 application to many parts of the non-irrigated tracts of 

 India, but a similar area on one of the large irrigation 

 canals would be necessary for production of results appli- 

 cable to all India. 



Area. The arable area is about 400 acres and grazing 

 about 100 acres. Outside the protective bund, there is 400 

 acres of rough grazing ground; this is frequently under 

 water for two months or longer. 



Rotation. The arable land, with the exception of one 

 field of 40 acres reserved for experimental work and one 

 field for miscellaneous crops for the various Sections, is 

 being cropped with the following rotation : — 



Hot weather 

 Cold weather 



1st year 



Maize for silage 

 and fodder 



Oats 



2nd j'ear 



Maize for corn . 



Arhar (Cajanus 

 indie us) 



3rd year 



Pulse, green crop 

 Oats 



One-third of the total area will be manured each year 

 with 10 tons farmyard manure to the acre, and one-third 

 with superphosphate. This rotation will produce both 

 fodder and grain for the large number of live stock at Pusa. 



