10 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL AGRICULTURIST. 



(Wynne Sayer, B.A. [in charge.] ) 



FORENOTE. 



Mr. G. S. Henderson was in charge of the post of Im- 

 perial Agriculturist till the 6th of February, when he was 

 sent on special duty to Mesopotamia. On return he was 

 put on special duty to purchase agricultural requirements 

 for that country. From the 6th February, Mr. Sayer, 

 Assistant to the Agricultural Adviser to the Government 

 of India, took over charge in addition to his own duties. 



From August Mr. Henderson toured extensively along 

 with the Deputy Director, Dairy Farms, Southern Division, 

 to get into touch with the extensive dairy organization 

 which has been formed by the military authorities. From 

 October till the end of January he was a member of the 

 Indian Cotton Committee. 



Mr. Henderson has now been made a member of the 

 recently created Central Foodstuffs and Transport Board 

 and appointed a Controller of the Munitions Board to deal 

 with agricultural equipment for Mesopotamia. 



I. Charge and Staff. 



Mr. Wynne Sayer was in charge of the Pusa farm from 

 the 6th February, 1918, in addition to his own duties. 



Mr. Imdad Husain Khan, Fieldman, left on 4th Novem- 

 ber, 1917, for Mesopotamia to work under the Military 

 Department. 



Training. Mr. S.N. De, a stipendiary from the Bengal 

 Agricultural Department, joined on 9th August, 1917, for 

 a course in agriculture but left on 21st January, 1918. 



Mr. Kalyan Mai Banthia, a stipendiary sent by the 

 Ajmer and Merwara Administration, was admitted to the 

 general course in agriculture from 8th June, 1918. 



