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of seasons, however, strong wheats are likely to command sub- 

 stantially higher prices than weak ones. 



All Indian wheats possess stability in a high degree, that is to 

 say, the baker handling large masses of dough produced from flour 

 obtained from Indian wheats only, is not at all troubled by stickiness 

 or kindred faults, but some of the new varieties possess in addition 

 to that good point, the toughness and resilience of dough charac- 

 teristic of American or Canadian Spring wheats. This improve- 

 ment and increase in strength as herein defined, can be developed 

 by skilful wheat conditioning and by the use in baking of malt 

 extracts possessing high diastatic power. Some wheats possess 

 potentialities which can be developed in this way, others do not. 



I have received for testing this year five varieties of wheat : — 



Muzaflarnagar. 

 Pusa 8. 

 Pusa 12. 

 Pusa 22. 

 Pusa 4. 



Each of the first four varieties was grown at five places — 



Aligarh. 



Bankipore. 



Cawnpore. 



Lyallpur. 



Pusa. 



One of the varieties (Pusa 22) was also grown at Pusa on land 

 which had been waterlogged. Of these four varieties, I therefore 

 received twenty-one lots. I also received three lots of the variety 

 Pusa 4 ; one grown at Pusa, another at Raipur on unirrigated land 

 and another at Raipur on irrigated land. All of these twenty-four 

 sample lots were white wheat. 



I have cleaned, conditioned, milled and baked each one 

 separately. It was necessary to clean them, because the samples 

 from Lyallpur, and in lesser degree the samples from Pusa were 

 dirty. They appeared to have been subjected to unfavourable 



