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The introduction of the cinchona was due to others, but to the 

 persistent efforts of this Department is mainly due the fact, that 

 we have now an excellent and efficient febrifuge, little, if at all, 

 inferior to the sulphate of quinine, which can be, and is, sold retail 

 in every bazar at R. 1 (or say Is. 9d.) the ounce. 



The results of numerous experiments made with Carolina rice, 

 another staple of which this Department has, year after year, im- 

 ported and widely distributed, large quantities of the best seed, 

 are still indecisive, but the trials are being continued. This rice 

 is far superior to the finest rice now grown in India, and is 

 worth, in the London market, double the price of the best Bengal 

 rice. 



Many of these experiments were tried in the so-called model and 

 experimental farms established under instructions from, or by the 

 advice and with the encouragement of, the Department. Of these 

 farms, there were eight last year, viz. at Allahabad, Cawnpore, 

 Nagpore, in Khandesh, in Sind, at Bangalore, in Madras, and in 

 Burma. There were also two old stud farms which were made 

 over on favourable terms to a European firm for the cultivation 

 and manufacture of tobacco on an improved system. One of these 

 was at Ghazipore, and another at Poosah. 



No doubt several of these farms were so managed as to exhibit 

 rather what to avoid, than what to imitate, but located in bad 

 sites, and managed by people who had no real knowledge of farm- 

 ing, all the Department could do was to get such little good out 

 of them as it could, and try and keep things a little straight by 

 means of remarks, criticisms, and suggestions on the reports j)eri- 

 odically received. 



The necessity for a proper system for the management of such 

 farms, and the need for the creation of agricultural schools, work- 

 ing in connection with them has been, time after time, emphati- 

 cally pointed out to the local Grovernments in letters and resolu- 

 tions, and close attention to the subject has been earnestly 

 commended to them. Without the co-operation of the local 

 Governments no sort of progress could be made as matters stood, 

 seeing that, under the scheme of provincial finance, the whole 

 cost of farms and agricultural schools has to be borne by provincial 

 revenues. 



In these farms experiments have been tried with new crops as 

 well as crops known in the country, under different conditions and 

 in different soils, the results being carefully recorded, and trials 

 have been made of improved implements of every kind, ploughs, 

 pumps, hoes, &c. Of course the principle to observe is that the 

 lighter, simpler, and cheaper such implements are, the greater is 

 the chance of their adoption by native agriculturists, and this the 

 Department has ever sought to impress on all concerned. 



Of experiments conducted under orders from the Department, 



