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the Lyallpur lot had a poor appearance but yielded better flour 

 and bread than its appearance would lead one to expect. This year 

 the ten lots do not show such great differences in appearance 

 and all of them may be described as good looking specimens of the 

 variety. The Hoshangabad lot contains a considerable percentage 

 of light grains and some greenish or actually green ones. It will be 

 interesting to know whether these blemishes were caused by early 

 cutting or by the wheat maturing too late for the locality. Be that 

 as it may, it is nevertheless a good lot of wheat. The Bankipore lot 

 also contains a few greenish corns and the same ideas suggest 

 themselves but in lesser degree. The Hoshangabad, Aligarh and 

 Dumraon lots are smaller in the berry than the other lots, but a 

 miller who wanted soft, weak wheat, suitable for making biscuit or 

 pudding flours, or who wanted some soft weak flour for toning down 

 the harshness of other kinds, would be very hard to please if he were 

 not content with any one of these lots. The Pusa lot is particularly 

 well grown. In buying wheats, especially those which are not in 

 large regular supply a miller has to base his ideas as to commercial 

 value on many points by appearance and before I had milled and 

 baked any of these lots I had placed them in the following order, 

 and assessed the difference in money value between the best and 

 worst at l/-per quarter only. It may be interesting to place last 

 year's order in juxtaposition. 



1909. 1910. 



