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which in England fetches 4.9. to 5-y. a quarter less than 

 soft white wheat, commands an extensive and ready 

 market in Southern Europe for the macaroni-making 

 industry. 



310. The names of the Indian wheats which are prized as 

 equal to any in the world are : (i) Gundun Safed of Delhi, 

 (2) Daudi of Unao in Oudh, (3) Saman of Bulandshahr and 

 Meerut in the N.-W. P. (4) Safed of Dera Ismail Khan in the 

 Punjab, and (5) White Pissi of the C. P. and (6)Buxar No. i 

 Club wheat. They fetch 46 to 48^. per quarter of 496 Ibs. in 

 the English market. The weight per bushel of Indian wheat 

 varies from 60 to 65 Ibs. while the recognised weight of a 

 bushel of English wheat is 6oJ Ibs.. Calcutta wheat is burden- 

 ed with refraction of 5 per cent, and Bombay wheat of 4 per 

 cent, in the English market, which only induces cultivators 

 or mahajans to mix earth or other foreign matter with the 

 wheat. In post-monsoon consignments the impurities in 

 Indian wheat are chiefly due to weevils. The price of wheat 

 in India depends on local conditions, and not on the price 

 ruling in England. 



311. India is, nex tto the United States, the largest wheat 

 producing country in the world, and the significance of this 

 fact is very great when we consider England's relation with 

 India, as England depends mainly on imported wheat and India 

 is supplying more and more of this. The production of wheat 

 in the provinces under direct British rule has been estimated 

 at 30,000,000 to 35,000,000 quarters, i. e., about the same 

 quantity as is produced by Russia or France. Great Britain 

 and Ireland produce only 10,000,000 to 13,000,000 quarters 

 per annum. 



312. The area under wheat in Bengal is estimated at 

 1,472,000 acres i. e- t 2*28 per cent, of the total cultivated 

 area of the Province. It is only in the district of Murshidabad 

 that more than 10 per cent, of the cultivated area is cropped 

 with wheat. It shows the prosperous condition of this dis- 



