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every probability of the exports of this food-stuff 

 increasing steadily, as they have during the 

 past few years. The exports from Bombay alone 

 have increased in four years from 26,000 to 

 688,000 cwts., the relative yearly shipments having 

 been as follows ; 



Cwts, 



1872 , , 26,000 



1873 274,000 



1874 741,000 



1875 688,000 



It is said that the Indian wheat is coming more 

 and more into request, especially in England, and 

 that there is every reason to believe that it will 

 soon rank equal to Californian and second only to 

 Australian wheat. Its cultivation in India is keep- 

 ing pace with the increasing demand, but we fear 

 that, under the native mode of cultivation, the 

 Indian wheat as indeed all other grains will in 

 course of years degenerate and lose its present good 

 repute. 



There is perhaps no crop the cultivation of 

 which demands greater observation of all the Laws 

 and Principles of Kational Agriculture, than wheat. 

 A most exhaustive and highly interesting account 

 of wheat cultivation is given by Dr. Lewis C. Beck 

 in a report on the "Bread-stuffs of the United 

 States of America/' * There is no crop we gather 



* The remarks that follow on the cultivation of Wheat are for the moat part 

 quotations from this Report. 



