212 ENVIRONMENT AND MILLING QUALITIES. 



These nine samples were submitted to Mr. A. E. Humphries 

 for milling and baking tests in May 1909 and his report is given 

 below. 



Report by Mr. A. E. Humphries, Past President of the In- 

 corporated National Association of British and Irish 

 Millers, on the nine samples of Muzaffarnagar white 

 sent from India in 1909. 



Muza§arnagars. 



*' I received 10 lots of this name. One of them, No. 7, is des- 

 cribed as Beardless Muzaffarnagar. I know nothing of this wheat 

 as regards its other botanical characteristics, but from my stand- 

 point, as a miller, it is substantially different to the others, and I 

 propose dealing with that separately later on. I understand that 

 the other 9 lots were sown, each one at a different place to test the 

 effect of environment on quality. The results are striking especially 

 if the seed sown in each case had been taken from the same 

 original bulk. I examined the wheats by eye and put them in the 

 following order as regards appearance :• — 



No. 11. Cawnpore. 



15. Pusa. 



12. Partabgarh. 



13. Dumraon. 

 10. Aligarh. 



9. Meerut. 



14. Bankipore. 

 8. Lyallpur. 



16. Oral. 



The Oral was a dingy-looking shrivelled wheat, the Lyallpur 

 had a peculiar hue which may have been caused by its having been 

 cut at a much earlier stage of ripeness than the others. There is, in 

 my opinion, a difference of several shillings per quarter in money 

 value between the best and the worst of these lots. This type of 



