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here also. The only other striking difference in these two series 

 concerns the Aligarh lot. It certainly was weevilled on its arrival 

 here, and that may be the indirect cause of a faUing off in baking 

 value, but apart from that, our work on English wheat has shown 

 that a given soil may grow a relatively strong sample of one variety 

 and under identical conditions a relatively weak sample of another 

 variety, which simply means in effect, that we have to provide for 

 each environment a variety or varieties inthe highest degree suitable 

 for it. I understand, however, that mainly for agricultural reasons, 

 this wheat is not likely to be extensively grown, and I may, there- 

 fore, dismiss it with these few remarks. 



The Pusa lot is of particularly attractive appearance and the 

 Oral wheat though very pale is nevertheless hard. 



Pusa 4. 



-I am at present particularly interested in this variety because 

 it has got beyond the experimental stage and I have received a 

 small sample of a large quantity grown in 1913 on a commercial 

 scale in Bihar.' I have shown this sample to several millers and 

 merchants, who all, with one consent, say it is very fine looking 

 wheat. One miller, who tested it by a comparatively new but 

 secret laboratory method, praised it very highly, and said such 

 wheat " will never go begging." Some of a cautious turn of mind, 

 well acquainted with ordinary Indian wheats, refrain from 

 expressing an opinion concerning its real merits until they have 

 tested it under commercial conditions. 



I have received for milhng and baking tests three sample lots 

 grown in 1912, respectively, at Pusa, Tharsa and Hoshangabad. 

 The last named is the best of the three, judged by appearance and 

 is very fine wheat beautifully grown. The Pusa sample has the 

 blemish of a black spot on the germ end of the berry which it had in 

 previous years, and in addition this year, a similar black spot in the 

 crease at the opposite end of the berry. This is not a very detri- 



1 This sample was grown on the Hathowrie Estate in the Darbhaugha District. 



