INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1917-18 4l 



growers who tested the variety last season and a further 

 sum of Rs. 25,000 has been set aside to build grain stores 

 at some of the Tehsils in the Province, primarily to store 

 seed of Pusa 4 for sale to the cultivators." 



At the Sydney Royal Agricultural Show of 1917, 

 Pusa 4 and two other varieties (Pusa 107 and Pusa 110), 

 grown by Mr. J. B. Roach at Gilgandra in New South 

 Wales, gained 44 out of 45 points and were awarded the 

 first prize in one of the classes. At the Food Products Ex- 

 hibition at Calcutta in January of this year, an exhibit of 

 Pusa 4 and Pusa 12 and of bread made from Pusa 4, grown 

 in Bundelkhand, gained a special prize. This exhibit was 

 arranged in collaboration with Mr. Burt, all the wheat 

 exhibited being grown on the farms of the Central Circle. 

 The samples were particularly well grown and attracted 

 much attention. The bread was baked by the Great 

 Eastern Hotel Company from flour prepared by Messrs. 

 Shaw Wallace & Co. at the Hooghly Flour Mills. 



. Punjab 11. In addition to the wheats selected at Pusa, 

 one of the types, Punjab 11, separated by us at Lyallpur 

 from a local mixture in 1906 and handed ever to the Pun- 

 jab Agricultural Department in 1908, is being distributed 

 in the Canal Colonies of the Punjab, the area last year 

 amounting to no less than 100,000 acres. This type will in 

 all probability be rapidly displaced by Pusa 12 when the 

 zamindars in the Chenab Colony cease to overwater their 

 wheat. At Mirpurkhas in Sind, Pusa 12 has given as much 

 as 25 maunds to the acre on the preliminary irrigation only, 

 a result which confirms the common experience with this 

 wheat in the United Provinces that it does best if somewhat 

 sparingly watered. 



Wheat breeding. The work on wheat breeding at Pusa, 

 referred to in previous reports, is now rapidly approaching 

 the stage when variety trials can be carried out on a field 

 scale. Two of the selections (Pusa 32 and Pusa 42) from 

 a cross made at Cambridge in 1910 between Pusa 4 and one 

 of the new English wheats were tried last year by Mr. Burt 

 at Kalianpur to see how these wheats would behave under 



