42 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



canal irrigation. The new types were tried against Cawn- 

 pore 13 and Pusa 12 on large plots and the sowings were 

 made in duplicate. The yields obtained were as follows : — 



Table I. 

 Trials of new Pusa wheats at Kalianpur. 



Nos. 32 and 42 have since been discarded as this cross 

 has yielded six more wheats which are much more promis- 

 ing. These will be tried on a field scale at Kalianpur in 

 October next. Three other series of crosses — on Pusa 6 — 

 are now rapidly becoming fixed and this material is 

 expected both to yield wheats of immediate utility as well 

 as parents for further crosses. To obtain the full advant- 

 age of the breeding work in progress at Pusa and to bring 

 it to a practical issue several years' work will still be 

 needed. 



The results to India of the Pusa work on wheat were 

 referred to in the House of Commons on August 14th, 1917, 

 by Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinck (Parliamentary 

 Debates, vol. 97, no. 116, p. 1008) when advocating that 

 more , money should be spent on research in agricultural 

 development. It was pointed out that research is the basis 

 of all progress in agriculture whether at home, in India or 



