84 ENVIRONMENT AND MILLING QUALITIES. 



Pusa 8. 

 Muzaffarnagar. 



and the differences are substantial. 



I believe that Sir James Wilson has advocated in public the 

 separate marketing of MuzafTarnagar wheat, and I certainly en- 

 dorse his recommendation and extend it. It can readily be 

 understood that the shipping of great quantities of wheat from 

 one port is facilitated by making up a commercial type upon 

 which a very great business can be transacted, but, on the 

 other hand, the later developments of milling have intensified 

 the importance of treating each wheat according to its indivi- 

 dual requirements. Choice white Kurrachee is a mixture of two 

 principal types of wheat, one (principally MuzafTarnagar) mellow 

 and woolly, the other hard and free-milling kinds. No miller 

 can make the best of both kinds when he receives them mixed 

 together. He may desire or be perfectly willing to buy both, but 

 if sellers wish to make the most of such widely differing wheats, 

 they must, by offering them separately, put the miller in a position 

 to treat each one to the best advantage. I do not wish to advocate 

 any extreme course, or I should say that it would be wise to keep 

 Muzaffarnagar and Pusa 8 separate, if the latter should be grown 

 to a substantial extent in the Punjab or United Provinces, 

 but bearing in mind the exigencies of a large export business, I 

 would as a practical proposition be content to see these two 

 varieties grouped together for export, but if Pusa 12, or more 

 emphatically if Pusa 22 be largely grown in districts supplying 

 the port of Kurrachee, the recommendation to keep them separate 

 from MuzafTarnagar is important. 



Summary. 

 The results I have obtained again demonstrate the well-known 

 fact that differences in soil, climate and water-supply do materially 

 affect the quality of wheat. I need not emphasize that point now. 

 But another point is equally apparent from these tests ; that the 

 inherent and hereditary influences of breed are extremely important, 



