24^ ENVIRONMEJrr AND BAKING QUALITIES. 



14. Bankifore. This centre is also to the south of the Ganges 

 where the soil is not true Gangetic alluvium. It is a dark, heavy, 

 moisture-retaining clay, not unlike some of the soils of Peninsular 

 India. 



The soil and moisture conditions at these fourteen stations 

 vary greatly as well as the general standard of agriculture. It is 

 no exaggeration to say that these stations represent the entire 

 range as regards soils and agricultural practice in India at the 

 present time and every gradation between dry cultivation, in the 

 monsoon-fed areas, and canal irrigation, in tracts which would 

 otherwise be desert. The selection of these stations was purposely 

 made in order to determine how a wheat with good grain qualities 

 would behave under such widely differing conditions. In the pre- 

 vious i)aper, tables were pubhshed giving the agricultural details 

 relating to the preparation for wheat, the seed rate in general use, 

 and the amount of water given after sowing. General information 

 relating to the production of the wheat crop can also be found in 

 Wheat in India.^ 



After the harvest of 1912, twenty-eight samples of wheat, 

 grown at the fourteen stations mentioned above, were selected for 

 complete milling and baldng tests and Mr. Humphries' report is 

 given in full below. 



Keport by Mr. A. E. Humphries (Past President of the In- 

 corporated National Association of British and Irish 

 Millers) on twenty-eight samples of wheat from the 

 Indian crop of 1912 sent to England in 1913. 



" In continuation of similar work performed by me in several 

 previous seasons, 1 have examined, cleaned, conditioned and milled 

 separately twenty-eight sample lots of wheat sent me by Mr. Albert 

 Howard, Imperial Economic Botanist and Mr. H. Martin Leake, 

 Economic Botanist to the Government of the United Provinces, 



' Howard & Howard, Wheat in India, 1909, pp. 1 — 46. 



