APPENDIX B. 
From A. E. Anastasiades, Esq., Manager of Messrs. Ralli 
Brothers’ Agency, Lyallpur, to the Imperial Economic Botanist, 
Pusa, dated Lyallpur, 12th May, 1906. 
Wheat.—With reference to the conversation you had with the undersigned, 
our Karachi Principals write to us as follows :— 
‘* The reason why we pay a better price for soft white wheat is that Great 
Britain and the North Continent, which take the bulk of Karachi wheat, generally 
prefer soft wheats. 
‘* However, if purely hard wheat were produced in the Punjab in sufficiently 
large quantities to make it a merchantable description, and if the quality kept its 
characteristics from year to year and could be relied on to be matched at any 
time, an outlet for it could readily be found and possibly such wheat would com- 
mand a premium. 
‘* At present, purely hard wheat without an admixture of soft grain, reaches 
the Punjab markets in such small quantities that we are precluded from buying it 
on its own merits, and it has to be mixed in the so-called soft descriptions.’’ 
