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5. Aligarh. The conditions at this station are similar to 

 those obtaining in the Meerut District. This centre is therefore 

 a duplicate of the above and both are situated in canal irrigated 

 tracts. 



6. HosJiangabad. This centre, which is situated outside the 

 Indo-Gangetic alluvium, is characteristic of the black cotton soil 

 of Peninsular India on which wheat is grown year after year on the 

 moisture stored up in the soil from the previous monsoon. Both 

 MuzafTarnagar white and Pusa 20 did not grow to perfection on the 

 soil moisture available and proved to be late varieties for this 

 tract. 



7. Orai. This station, which is also outside the Gangetic 

 alluvium, is situated in Bundelkhand where wheat is grown on 

 moisture retaining clays which are however sometimes watered. 



8. Banhifore. This station is situated in Bihar on the south 

 bank of the Ganges, but the soil is not alluvial in character. It is a 

 heavy moisture retaining clay not unlike some of the soils of 

 Peninsular India. 



9. Dumraon. This station occurs in the wheat growing tracts 

 in South Bihar. The soil is sandy and possesses little or no 

 moisture retaining capacity. In consequence even with irrigation 

 the yields of grain and straw are small. 



10. Lyalljjur. This station is typical of the canal irrigated 

 tract known as the Chenab Colony which produces a large proportion 

 of the wheats exported from Karachi. Overwatering is common 

 while the general standard of cultivation for the wheat crop is 

 below that practised by the best cultivators in the Eastern Punjab 

 and in the Upper Doab. 



The soil and moisture conditions at these ten stations vary 

 greatly. On the one hand at Pusa and Hoshangabad wheat is grown 

 almost entirely as a dry crop, while at the rest of the stations the 

 soil moisture is supplemented by varying amounts of canal or well 

 water. In addition, the standard of cultivation at all the stations 

 is not the same as will be seen on comparing the details of prepara- 

 tion for the crop at the various centres. On the alluvial soils of 



