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In milling, this variety behaves similarly to MuzafTarnagar, 

 possessing as it does the same typical mellowness, so that for optimum 

 results it does not require and will not satisfactorily respond to much 

 conditioning. But there the similarity ends so far as my work 

 is concerned. In the bakehouse the Pusa and Cawnpore lots show 

 a most decided superiority to those from Aligarh, Bankipore and 

 Lyallpur. Both yield tough doughs, the Pusa lot particularly, 

 and from both lots fine large loaves can be obtained. There is a 

 superiority in the other three lots over the MuzafTarnagar grown at 

 the same places, but they all yield the same type of flour. When 

 by lapse of time the conditioning had worked its full effect 

 and when malt extract was added in baking, the Pusa lot behaved 

 very much like Russian G-hirka wheat, and this of itself is note- 

 worthy. The bakehouse results, in the case of this variety also, 

 leave the order of merit unchanged from that assigned to them by 

 their appearance, but the Pusa and Cawnpore lots are very close 

 together, and at a considerable distance the other three lots are also 

 close together. 



Pusa 12. 



This variety also resembles MuzafTarnagar in appearance, and it is 

 free from the black spot at the germ end of the berry which is seen 

 in some samples of Pusa 8. It can be described as a mellow wheat, 

 but it differs from MuzafTarnagar and in lesser degree from Pusa 8, 

 because its baking qualities are improved, and its behaviour in 

 the milling processes is not prejudicially affected by the addition 

 of water in conditioning, even if that process be applied severely. 

 The five samples, judged by appearance, are in the following order 

 of merit : — 



Cawnpore. 



Pusa. 



Aligarh. 



Bankipore. 



Lyallpur. 



