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the plains of India wheat comes to perfection only if the soil has 

 been well prepared beforehand and when this preparation extends 

 over a sufficiently long period. To obtain optimum results, both as 

 regards yield and quality, this preparation should extend over the 

 previous hot season as well as during the rains. It is only when the 

 soil has been exposed to the sweetening influences of the sun and air 

 during the hottest part of the year in April and May (which process 

 also kills out most weeds) and subsequently cultivated during the 

 monsoon that the maximum amount of moisture can be absorbed 

 and the soil brought into the highest condition of fertility for wheat. 

 A hurried preparation always adversely affects the yield and is also 

 reflected in the poor general appearance, low nitrogen content and 

 in the milling and baking results. On the other hand, where 

 great attention is paid to cultivation, clean weeding and moisture 

 conservation, the samples are bright and well grown and take the 

 eye. They also tend to contain a high percentage of nitrogen and 

 invariably do well in the milling and baking tests. 



Muzaffarnagar White. 



For the season 1909-10 the details relating to the trial of this 

 wheat at the above ten stations are to be found in the table opposite 

 and the result of the milling and baking tests are referred to in the 

 following extract from Mr. A. E. Humphries' report, dated October 

 27 th, 1910. 



Muzaffarnagar. 



"I understand all ten lots were produced from the same seed 

 but that each one was grown at different places, Pusa, Bankipore, 

 Dumraon, Partabgarh, Cawnpore, Orai, Aligarh, Meerut, Lyallpur 

 and Hoshangabad. In 1909, I tested sample lots of this wheat 

 grown at the nine places mentioned first in the list. I note that the 

 Hoshangabad sample represents a lot grown experimentally in a 

 new environment. There were great differences between the 1909 

 lots which would represent ''several shillings per quarter." The 

 lot in that season from Orai was a' 'dingy looking shrivelled wheat/' 



