40 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AORICTTLTURAL RESEARCH 



indigo planters a portion only of which could be met. 

 Nearly all the last crop of seed produced on the Dholi 

 estate, an exceptionally fine product, was used for setting 

 up a number of these estates with a pure supply of seed. 



In the United Provinces, Mr. Burt reports that this 

 variety has been a most marked success in the Ken and 

 Dhasan Canal areas in the Districts of Banda and Hamir- 

 pur. Last year, over five thousand maunds of Pusa 4 were 

 issued and in addition a number of zamindars and culti- 

 vators sowed considerable areas from their own seed. A 

 large proportion of the seed was distributed through the 

 Canal Department. At the last harvest, this variety fetched 

 a very substantial premium in the local markets often 

 amounting to eight to ten annas a maund over country- 

 wheat, the keenest buyers being exporters to Bombay. For 

 the coming year, a stock of 8,000 maunds of this wheat is 

 being held for issue in Bundelkhand. This variety is also 

 likely to prove useful on the alluvium in helping to solve 

 the fodder problem. For the third year in succession at 

 Kalianpur, excellent crops of Pusa 4 have been obtained 

 after early fodder juar {A. Sorghum). The practice, if 

 generally adopted, would go far to solve the fodder diffi- 

 culty in canal irrigated tracts and would permit of a larger 

 area being put under wheat. 



In the Central India States, the results obtained with 

 Pusa 4 led to a keen demand for seed but nothing could be 

 done to assist matters due to the railway restrictions in 

 force. A supply was arranged for the Gwalior State but 

 transport could not be obtained. 



In the North-West Frontier Province, the result of the 

 trials of this variety by the ryots is that " Pusa 4 has 

 gained the cultivators' favour and has been accepted bv 

 them, and it is confidently expected that the vareity will 

 occupy the greater part of the 280,000 acres of irrigated 

 wheat in the North- West Frontier Province within a very 

 few years. Pusa 4 has been so well received by the people 

 that the North-West Frontier Province Government have 

 allotted a sum of Rs. 25,000 to purchase seed from those 



