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In the plains, wheat is sown in irriorated lands in October and November 

 and reaped in April. In tlie. valleys of liiwh elevation, the land is plonghed 

 in the spring and snnmier and watered in October. When the land has dried 

 snfficiently. the seed is scattered broadcast and ploughed in. The second 

 watering is given fifteen days after germination, the third about the n)iddle 

 of January and the fourth at the beginning of ^larch. After this the wheat 

 is irrigated every ten or fifteen days. 



The average vield ctf wheat in maiinds per acre is as follows : — 



Nasirdbdd taJisiI. 



I. Thori. Seven samples of this wheat fiom seven different villages 

 were sent. It is said to be grown for export and to be the best wheat in the 

 District. The name T^or?" signifies bald orN\ithout awns. The samples were 

 very mixed and the main consthuent was not the same in each. It would 

 appear therefore that Thori is not a variety but a group of wheats which 

 resemble one another in being beardless and in having white grain. In three 

 samples, the chief constituent was a beardless wheat ^^■ith red. felted glumes, 

 in two samples a beardless wheat with smooth, white chaff and one sample 

 had equal quantities of these two. One sample was too unripe and damaged 

 to examine. 



1. Thori froiii the riUafje of Gmiihillin . There were no less than ten 

 different wheats in this sample. The main constituent was a beardless wheat 

 with red. felted chaff and white grain (var. DeJfii Kcke. Class XL"\TII). 



2. Thori from the village of Khudadad. This sample contained eight 

 different wheats. A beardless wheat with smooth, white chaff, white 

 grain and pink straw was present to the largest extent (var. alhidvm Al. 



Class LXII). 



3. Thori from the village of Dadpur. About two-thirds of the sample 

 consisted of a beardless wheat with red. felted chaff and white grain 

 (var. Delfii Kcke. Class XLVIII). There were five other wheats present. 



