from the Mutha Left Bank Canal. Survey No. 57, which is 

 occupied by the pasturage and most of the buildings, may be 

 considered as belonging to the Dairy. 



III. Line of work. 



4. This year the Station entered on a new phase of work. 

 Up to this time it was used partly as an educational and partly 

 as a fodder-producing farm. But owing to the opening of a new 

 S'ation in connection with the scheme of a separate Agricultural 

 College this Station has become purely an experimental and 

 demonstrative one. 



The area which was set apart as a "Dairy farm and used 

 principally for raising fodder for the Dairy was also utilized this 

 year for experimental purposes, the fodders being raised on the 

 College Station. 



The principal lines of experiments are noted below : 



(1) Cultivation of the different types of cottons (a) fo 

 resting the land successively cropped to fodders, (6) fo 

 selection of a cotton better adapted to the Deccan con 

 ditions of irrigated cultivation. 



(2) Growing of tree cottons on light soil portions of 

 the Station to determine their productive quality. 



(3) Growing of varieties of Jowar, Bajri, maize and Tur 

 for seed. 



(4) Growing a set of varieties in small plots of pulses 

 and millets for classification by the Economic Botanist. 



(5) Growing light soil crops and variety tests. 



(6) Trial of different green manures on wheat. 



(7) Cultivation of rabi pulses in rotation after fodder 

 Jowars to hold the land in good condition. 



(8) Fibre crops for comparative fibre test. 



(9) Plant diseases. The work with Tikka disease of 

 groundnut and Wilt disease of Tur was continued. 



(10) Growing of varieties of groundnuts on areas not 

 known to be affected with Tikka. 



(11) Trial of new crops. 



IV. Meteorology, 



5. The rainfall was somewhat below the average but was 

 well distributed. 



