« SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



A sum of Rs. 15,000 was paid as a grant-in-aid to the 

 Indian Tea Association. 



The principal items of expenditure under the annual 

 grant of Rs. 10,000 placed at the disposal of the Agricul- 

 tural Adviser to the Government of India for special 



agricultural experiments were as follows : — 



Es. 



Purchase of a corn crusher . ... 655 



Purchase of a chaff cutter . . . . . . 596 



Purchase of canvas paulins for the Pusa Farm . 652 

 Paid to the Director of Agriculture, Bengal, for the 



cost of a mechanical fibre extractor . . . 1,457 



Experimental cotton cultivation by the Imperial 



Cotton Specialist ...... 1,200 



Pay of a Veterinary Assistant in connection with 

 cattle breeding and that of a Fieldman for 

 mosquito experiments ...... 1,431 



The gross receipts during the year from the sale of 

 farm produce, milk, publications of the department and 

 other articles amounted to Rs. 21,403 as against Rs. 19,843 

 in the previous year. 



VI. Conferences. 



The Government of India having accepted the 

 recommendation of the tenth meeting of the Board of 

 Agriculture in India held at Poona in 1917 that section- 

 al meetings of mycologists, entomologists and chemists be 

 held in years in which there is no meeting of the Board of 

 Agriculture, such meetings were held at Pusa in February, 

 1919. In accordance with the recommendation of the 

 Board, they were not confined to members of the Agricul- 

 tural Department. The Indian Tea Association and 

 Portuguese India were represented at both the Mycologic- 

 al and Entomological Meetings, whilst the Forest Zoologist 

 attended the Entomological Meeting. The latter meeting 

 also attracted visitors from outside India, the Egyptian 

 Government sending an official delegate in Dr. Lewis 

 H. Gough, Director of the Entomological Service in Egypt, 

 and Mr. R. Senior- White attending from Ceylon. Detail- 

 ed proceedings of these meetings are being issued. 



