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not yet received numbers, gave equally good results in 1912. 

 In the trials of the strong wheats in 1911, Pusa 12 at most stations 

 gave a higher yield than Muzaffarnagar, a result which is almost 

 always the case when the two wheats are grown side by side at 

 Pusa. In the case of gram (Cicer arietinum, L.) at Pusa, where 

 many pure lines have been grown, the line with the highest qua lit v 

 is by far the highest yielder. Experience shows that there is no 

 inherent antagonism between yield and quality and that both are 

 possible in the same wheat. 



Considerable attention has been paid at Pusa and afterwards 

 at Cawnpore to the study of the conditions under which any parti- 

 cular wheat gives the best possible sample. As might have been 

 expected the best samples were produced when the wheats gave 

 the highest yield. The best samples were obtained after hot 

 weather cultivation and clean fallowing during the monsoon when 

 the objects aimed at were the absorption of water and its retention 

 in the soil and subsoil combined with the destruction of all weeds. 

 In this way yields of over 40 bushels to the acre have been obtained 

 at Pusa without manure, without rain after sowing and without 

 irrigation. 



The higher the yield, the finer and more uniform the sample 

 has been while the results of the milling and baking tests have 

 always been most favourable in years of greatest yield. Thus in 

 1910 at Pusa, when the yields were the highest ever reached, the 

 samples were particularly well spoken of by Mr. Humphries and 

 gave very good results indeed when milled and baked. In 1911, 

 the yields, due to very unfavourable weather, were lower, and in 

 that year the samples were relatively poorer in appearance and 

 the milling and baking results were also to a certain extent adverse- 

 ly affected. In the tests of Muzaffarnagar, grown at the various 

 stations, a similar result has been obtained. The Cawnpore and 

 Pusa samples have always done best in the milling and baking 

 tests. At these centres this wheat has uniformly given higher 

 yields than at the other stations. There is no doubt therefore that 



