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taking into consideration all points of quality, I should place 

 them, according to appearance, in the following order : — 



1. Aligarh. 



2. Meerut. 



3. Cawnpore. 



4. Dumraon. 

 o. Partabgarh. 



6. Mirpurkhas. 



7. Pusa. 



8. Gurdaspur. 



9. Orai. 



10. Tharsa. 



11. Bankipore. 



12. Lyallpur. 



From the foregoing list I have omitted Raipur, for the reason 

 already mentioned, but if I were compelled to place it, 1 would 

 bracket it equal to its sister lot Tharsa. Furthermore, when I 

 was examining the samples for the second time, I appraised them 

 differently. It then seemed to me desirable to put the grey hued 

 ones, Mirpurkhas, Gurdaspur, and Lyallpur into a separate group, 

 for I began to suspect that they were in fact of better quality than 

 their appearance at first sight would lead one to expect. However, 

 as I am at this moment setting out a sequence of relative merit 

 according to appearance only, I have left the Hst as I first made it. 

 Accordingly, Lyallpur is certainly at the bottom. It is a dingy, 

 dirty looking lot, and the germ end of the berry appears to be swollen 

 in a way which one would expect to find if the earliest stages of ger- 

 mination had been passed. This small point of appearance is 

 characteristic of all Pusa 12 samples, but it is specially noticeable 

 in the Lyallpur sample. 



In conditioning and miUing, all these wheats behaved satis- 

 factorily except the Bankipore lot, and as that was badly weevilled 

 on its arrival in England, its inferior behaviour in the mill 

 is explained. The miller's note on the Tharsa lot is that it '' milled 

 about the same as dry English." The lots from the Indus districts 



