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were also present as adniixt.ures a Warded wheat with .siii(H,tli.. white chaii' 

 and red grain (var. erythrospermmn Kcke. Class XLI) ; a fully bearded wheat, 

 with white felted chaf! and red grain (var. Hostianmn Clem. Class XXI) ; 

 a similar wheat but very shortly awned and with short, rounded glumes 

 (var. meridionale Kcke. Class XXIV) and a bearded wheat with red, 

 densely felted chaff and white grain (var. turdcvm Kcke. Class XV). 



6. Sioh das. This wheat, as the name implies, has much black colour 

 on the awns and glumes. It is said to be grown mostly (»n irrigated land. 

 The bulk of the sample consisted of a bearded wheat with smooth, red 

 chafY with nuich blackening (tn the awns and glumes and red grain 

 (var. ccesium Al. Class XXXI). There were also present as impurities 

 in very small quantity a similar wheat with white grain, a bearded wheat 

 with white chaf^" and red grain (var. eriithrosjiermum Kcke. Class XLI) and 

 a bearded wheat with red. felted glumes nuicli blaekened and led grain 

 (var. fidiginosum Al. Class XIX). 



KACIIHI. KALAT. 



Kachhi. the most easterly portion of the Khan of Kalat's dominions, 

 adjoins the Nasirabad and Sibi tahsils of the Sibi District and resembles these 

 in many particulars. It consists of a flat, triangular plain surrounded by 

 mountains. The altitude is nowhere above 500 feet, but there is an dmost 

 imperceptible slope from north to south. 



The climate is like northern tSind excessively hot in summer and very 

 dry. Unlike most parts of Baluchistan, there are only two seasons, summer 

 and winter, and the former is much the longest. Tlie rainfall is very small, 

 about 3 inches. 



The soil is very fertile if wattr is available but the irrigati<tn water is not 

 nearly sufficient for the whole area and there are large .stretches of deseit 

 with no vegetation. There is a fringe of land under the hills which receives 

 permanent inigation but most of the cultivation is carried out on flood water 

 from the rivers. There are numerous rivers and hill torrents in Kachhi of 

 which the Nari. the Bolan. the Sukleji, the Miila. the Lahri and the Chattar 

 are the most important. These streams are held up by enormous dams 

 and the water is deflected into numerous side channels both natural and 

 artificial. Some of the dams are very large but they are all of earth or sand 

 and brushwood and break under sudden floods. They are made and repaired 

 on a communal basis. 



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