INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1918-19 11 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL AGRICULTURIST. 



(Wynne Sayer, B.A.) 



I. Charge and Training. 



I was in charge of the Farm, in addition to my duties 

 as Assistant to the Agricultural Adviser, up to the 20th 

 January, 1919. From that date I have been officiating as 

 Imperial Agriculturist. 



Training. Mr. Kalyan Mai Banthia was under train- 

 ing in agriculture and cattle work during the year. 



B. Dalip Singh, an Overseer from the Karnal Military 

 Dairy Farm, was admitted to a course of six months' prac- 

 tical agriculture on the farm from 30th May, 1919. 



Conference. A Cattle Conference was held at Pusa 

 on 17th and 18th February, 1919, when several matters con- 

 nected with the Pusa herd were discussed. 



II. Pusa Farm. 



The Season. The year 1918-19 was remarkable for 

 early rain in May followed by a heavy rainfall for the year, 

 60- 19 inches being registered as against 45-54 inches for 

 last year. But the distribution was so uneven that it was 

 by no means a good year. The failure of the hathia in 

 October told heavily upon the rabi* crop which was only 

 saved from disaster by a short rain in January, too late, 

 however, to affect the main crop to an appreciable extent. 

 Floods started on the 1st June which is unusually early, 

 and heavy rain on the 25th and 26th of August accompanied 

 by strong winds laid most of the maize, and, in short, the 

 record of the whole season goes to prove that it is the dis- 

 tribution far more than the actual quantity of rain that 

 counts from ar agricultural point of view. 



* Crop sown in winter. 



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