38 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



that it is beardless and the ears are copper-coloured when 

 ripe enables this variety to be rogued easily and so kept pure 

 by the cultivators. 



The substitution of the country wheats by Pusa 12 in 

 the United Provinces, important as this is, is, however, only 

 a part of the advantage that is possible as a result of this 

 work. One of the characteristics of a really superior 

 variety is its power to respond to improved cultivation. 

 The future possibilities of the plains of India in wheat 

 production will be evident from a consideration of the 

 yields obtained on the large scale during the past season 

 with this variety. In Oudh. the average yield of Pusa 12 

 on large areas at Chandapur in the Hai Bareli District and 

 at Malihabad near Lucknow worked out at 30 maunds per 

 acre. At the Kalianpur seed farm near Cawnpore which 

 a few years ago was very indifferent village land, an area 

 of over 70 acres gave an average of 27 maunds to the acre. 

 Some of the cultivators' fields in the Etawah District 

 weighed out over 24 maunds to the acre. At the Sugar 

 Experiment Station at Shahjahanpur, the record yield of 

 35 maunds to the acre over 18 acres was reached. These 

 vields are now the rule in well managed seed farms in this 

 Province and are the result of a proper grading of the land 

 combined with good cultivation and good management. 



In Bihar, the introduction of Pusa 12 has made satis- 

 factory progress in the Patna and Bhagalpur Divisions 

 where, however, the work is still hampered by a shortage of 

 seed. The whole of the Pusa 12 grown last year oti the 

 Dholi and other estates in North Bihar was placed at the 

 disposal of Mr. Milne for use in South Bihar as well as an 

 additional 2,000 maunds from Oudh. Even with the local 

 supplies, these amounts only satisfied a very small portion 

 of the demand. 



In the Punjab, the Director of Agriculture reports that 

 Pusa 12 is exceedingly popular in the Hoshiarpur, Jullun- 

 dur, Gurdaspur and Sialkot Districts on well lands. The 

 criticism has been made on this wheat that it is being 



