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dearer than imported material, while the railway freights 

 now charged for full waggon loads are enormous. Till more 

 normal conditions of supply and transport obtain and till 

 importation from Norway and other countries is again 

 practicable, it will scarcely be possible to collect any more 

 fruit box material at Quetta. The supplies already in hand 

 are expected to last till 1920 after which no more orders will 

 be sent till after the war. This work is financed by means 

 of Treasury advances and purchases and sales have to 

 balance each other. The system therefore does not admit 

 of the holding of large stocks of unsold materials and is 

 quite unsuited to the trade conditions of the present time. 

 As soon as the war is over and prices settle down, the supply 

 of these boxes will be handed over to a local agency. The 

 demand is now considerable and the suitability of the* vari- 

 ous boxes and crates has been thoroughly tested. Railway 

 concessions have been arranged for and are now in working 

 order. The whole question has passed the experimental 

 stage and will be dealt with by the trade at the earliest 

 opportunity. 



V. Programme and Publications. 



1. Programme of work for 1918-19. 



Investigations will be continued on the following crops 

 on the lines indicated in the annual reports and in the pub- 

 lications of the Section — wheat, tobacco, fibre plants, indigo, 

 gram, oil seeds, fodder crops and fruit. 



2. List of Publications. 



The following papers were published during the year : — 



1. The sun-drying of vegetables. Bulletin 8, Fruit Experi- 



■ment Station, Quetta. First edition, August, 1 917. 

 Second edition, March, 1918. Abstract read at the 

 Indian Science Congress, Lahore, 1918, and published 

 in the Agricultural Journal of India, vol. XIII, pt. IV, 

 1918. 



2. Tarkarion ka dhup men khushk karna. Basal a no. 8, 



August, 1917. (Urdu publication.) 



