INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1919-20 47 



In October 1919, seeds of the new Pusa wheats Nos. 46, 

 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 were sent to Mr. Burt, Deputy 

 Director of Agriculture, Cawnpore, and have been under 

 trial the past season at the Cawnpore, Kalianpur and Shah- 

 jahanpur farms. 



Mr. Burt reports that as the areas were small and the 

 experiment somewhat upset by two canal failures, the re- 

 sults are not sufficiently dependable to enable strict com- 

 parison with Pusa 12 to be made from the results of one 

 year only. They indicate, however, taken in conjunction 

 with the appearance of the standing crop, that several cf 

 the hybrids are very promising. Mr. Burt states that it 

 seems likely all the wheats of the 50 — 54 series will be 

 higher yielders than P 12. They possess stronger straw 

 and hold their grain better. 



Experiments were also conducted on P 12 to test the 

 effect of varying irrigation and cultivation on yield and 

 quality, but the results are not available for this report. 



No large distribution of seed in bulk from outside 

 sources has been made this season, but about 114 maunds 

 of pure seed from the Botanical Area supply have been sent 

 out to about 40 different applicants. 



Spread of Pusa wheats. In the United Provinces, Mr.. 

 Burt reports that the systematic introduction of P 12 wheat 

 in the Doab and Oudh portions of the Central Circle is being 

 continued in co-operation with zemindars, Court of Wards 

 estates and co-operative societies. Two District Boards 

 have undertaken seed-storage schemes of considerable mag- 

 nitude during the year, the main item in each case being 

 P 12. In the Allahabad Division, a feature of the past 

 year's work has been an increase in the number of cultivat- 

 ing zemindars growing considerable areas of this wheat. 



This is said to have materially assisted the seed-supply 

 problem. • 



The introduction of P 4 in the canal-irrigated tracts of 

 Bundelkhand is also being continued, and progress is odIv 

 limited by the amount of seed which the staff can handle 

 and the amount of pure seed available. A special simpli- 



