HOWARD, LEAKE AND HOWARD. 259 



Wheats grown at Pusa. 



I have tliis year received in all sample lots of six varieties 

 grown at Pusa, and having regard to their appearance and to the 

 bakehouse results, I should place them in the following order of 

 merit : — 



Pusa 108^ 



107 J 

 12/ 



1 Tfi r^®'^^ close together. 



22 f ^®^®^- 



They are all fine wheats, and there is no great difference 

 between the best and the worst of them. 



Wheats from Tharsa. 

 Iplacethefour lots from Tharsa in the folio wing order of merit : — 



Pusa 12 

 „ 107 

 » 4 

 „ 108 



but there is very httle difference between the best and the worst of 

 them. 



Summary. 



It has again been demonstrated that wheats of the liighest 

 class can be grown in India on several kinds of soil, and on land 

 which has been irrigated. It has been shown that the high excellence 

 of quahty possessed by wheats grown at Pusa in previous seasons 

 was not due to environment or agricultural practice, for the same 

 varieties of wheat have yielded still better results elsewhere. It is 

 interesting to note that this high excellence of quality was found 

 existing in wheats indigenous to India, and that in the Pusa Nursery 

 varieties, the progeny appear to possess intact the great strength 

 of the strong parents. I have no doubt that any or all of the wheats 

 tested will rcc^hze, some at once, some later, relatively higher prices 

 on our markets than the existing Indian wheats of commerce. If 

 these new varieties yield no more gra in and straw per acre than those 

 ordinarily grown, their extended distribution as seed is desirable ; 



