INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1917-18 



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and the Fibre Expert to the Government of Bengal were 

 laid down. 



Buildings and Machinery. Two new pit silos have 

 been dug. This type of silo has proved a great success and 

 vastly superior to the brick tower type, as there is little or 

 no wastage at top, bottom and sides, and the silage does not 

 dry out as is the case in the brick silos owing to the impossi- 

 bility of pressing them sufficiently tight from the top. 



A new silage cutter, Climax, was purchased from Messrs. 

 Shaw Wallace & Co., and was tried during the season; it 

 has a feeder attached to it and the chopped stuff is carried 

 up by a blast and blown through a pipe into the silo. 



Five hundred and five maunds of cleaned oats were 

 turned out by the 4' 6" Marshall Thresher in one day, which 

 is a record, I think, for India. 



Steam Plough Tackle. This tackle consisting of two 

 single cylinder K Class Fowler engines and a disc plough, 

 a gang plough, a disc harrow, a grubber, a zigzag harrow 

 and a roller, worked for 121 days during the year, but the 

 total cost of working this year was Us. 6,098-8-3, as against 

 Rs. 4,034 for 151 days of last year. The details are given 

 below : — 



Statement A. 



Showing cost for working and maintaining the tackle in 



1916-17 and 1917-18'. 



