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Charcoal may be regarded as a fair representative 

 of carbon, and water as the representative of both 

 oxygen and hydrogen. It will be seen by the 

 above figures that over 95 per cent, of wheat is 

 constituted of elements which greatly abound in 

 nature in an available condition, and which nature 

 herself restores by her own processes; and the same 

 is true of all other plants. It is doubtless owing to 

 this circumstance that a comparatively small quan- 

 tity of mineral fertilizers are able to produce crops 

 five, ten, and even fifty times greater than their 

 own weight. 



THE CULTIVATION OF WHEAT IN THE CENTRAL 

 PROVINCES. BY A. C. ELLIOT. 



The distinctive crop of the district is wheat, and it is 

 the only one respecting the kinds and growth of which 

 I think it worth while to enter into any particulars. 



There are five kinds of wheat grown the Jelalia, Kutia 9 

 Soharia, Bungmia, and Pissi. The Jelalia is the finest : 

 it is a large white wheat, and a sample of it, taken from 

 the village of Rehsulpore, obtained the first prize at the 

 Lucknow Exhibition of December 1864, as the " largest 

 and finest" wheat exhibited among a great number of com- 

 petitors. Kutia, however, runs it very hard : it is a first- 

 class red wheat, very little inferior to Jelalia in weight, 

 and said to grow better than it in second-class soil. Jelalia 

 ripens about ten days earlier than Kutia. Soharia is a 



