TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



I. Report of the Director, Agricultural Research Institute, 

 Pusa — 



I. Charge and staff 



II. Work of the Institute 



Scientific work 



Training 



III. Publications 



IV. General administration 

 V. Accounts . 



VI. Visitors 



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II. Report of the Imperial Agriculturist 

 Eorenote . ... 



I. 



II. 



Charge and staff 



Pusa farm 

 The season 

 Experimental work 

 Buildings and machinery 

 Steam plough tackle 

 III. Cattle breeding 

 IV. Publications 

 V. Programme for 1918-19 . 



III. Report of the Imperial Agricultural Chemist — 



I. Administration .... 



II. Education . . . . 



III. Meteorology and drain-gauges . 



IV. General analytical work and assistance given to 



other Sections 



V. Methods of analysis 



VI. Soils and soil conditions 



(a) Paddy soils 



\b) " Bara" soils 



(c) Mode of action of superphosphate in 



calcareous soils 



VII. Crops 



(a) Paddy 

 (6) Tobacco . 

 (c) Sugarcane 



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