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THE INFLUENCE OF ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS 
UPON THE GERMINATION OF INDIAN 
BARK: 
BY 
W. YOUNGMAN, B. Sc., 
Economic Botanist to Government, United Provinces. 
[Received for publication on 14th May, 1921.]} 
In 1913 attention was called by the Imperial Institute to the fact that 
whilst Indian barley proved to be quite satisfactory generally for malting 
purposes in the United Kingdom yet “other shipments contained a large 
percentage of grains that would not germinate, sometimes amounting to 10 to 
20 per cent.” The matter was referred to the Department of Agriculture, 
United Provinces, by the Imperial Institute, and Mr. Wilson, who was then 
Assistant Hconomic Botanist, United Provinces, was instructed to carry out 
an investigation into the matter. Mr. Wilson had collected much information 
as to methods of storage, and a large number of germination experiments 
were performed by him when he was transferred to another province. 
The information and figures collected by Mr. Wilson later passed into 
my hands. The investigation was again started by me de novo, but I wish 
to acknowledge that the data collected by Mr. Wilson were of considerable 
assistance to me in my work. The following observations are the result 
of this work upon the germination of barley carried on through the two 
seasons 1919 and 1920. 
The Imperial Institute reported that it had been noticed that the early 
shipments of barley generally germinated well and that it was usually the 
later shipments which exhibited defect. 
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