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The presence of translucent berries improves the appearance 

 of a sample according to usual ideas concerning commercial excel- 

 lence, but that causes the flour obtained from such lots to be brighter 

 and more yellow, or at least less white than that produced from lots 

 of the same variety which contain no translucent berries. So 

 whereas the bread produced from this Lyallpur lot was worse in 

 colour and general appearance than the others, the flour itself was 

 relatively white in hue, and therefore, quite as well fitted for the 

 making of puddings and biscuits as the substantially better lots 

 from Cawnpore and Pusa. 



I need not refer in detail to my previously expressed opinions 

 concerning this variety. For certain purposes and under certain 

 conditions it yields good flour, but for modern requirements of 

 actual milling and for the making of bread, either of the other 

 varieties sent me this year are much better having regard to their 

 behaviour at all five places. 



Pusa 8. 



In some respects this wheat is not unlike Muzafrarnagar, and the 

 similarity is more apparent in the lots grown at Bankipore and 

 Aligarh than in others. The Lyallpur lot has a dusty, dingy appear- 

 ance and has a black spot at the germ end of the berry. This last 

 named blemish occurs also in the Pusa sample, and to a very slight 

 extent in that grown at Cawnpore. However, that does not seem 

 to damage the flour and need not be regarded as a serious fault. 

 The Cawnpore has the appearance of strength and so has the Pusa 

 lot, but in lesser degree. The others look weak, that from Lyallpur 

 decidedly so. According to appearance the five lots should be 

 placed in the following order of merit : — 



Cawnpore. 



Pusa. 



Aligarh. 



Bankipore. 



Lyallpur. : c 



