1922.] The Ninth Indian Science Congress. 1.8.0. 33 
The fresh armas is liked by the cattle and if possible it may be so 
used but the material becomes mouldy and acid very quickly and there- 
fore i i as muc a 8- 
sible and dried a ae sun. The cattle me aie? “ere the dry material in the 
beginning but soon get secustomed he dry spent Mohwra is as 
good as dry eeuoes in its fee 
For the production of pean Be “the dry material has to be treated 
with sulphuric acid. The cheapest process would be to pons the = 
with twentieth normal sulphuric acid under the atmospheric pressure 
The treatment would i ncrease the be of alevhol by 25%. It has 
been found that if the original Mohwra flowers are boiled with twentieth 
normal sulphuric acid fot one hour the quantity of sugars increases 
16%. 
These are all laboratory experiments but trials ought to be made 
on a commercial scale to find out whether the processes indicated would 
ay 
f the dry yA cannot. pts —e as —_ food or for production of 
alcohol it pies well be ure or lastly for burning 
purposes so that reid ae edine of the » distilleries reals be free from 
the ins eines conditions caused by the fermenting spent Mohwra 
flowers. 
Improved mae of wheat sowing for Central India.—By 
K. R. Josu 
In Central India meat and other rabi crops are sown by an imple- 
ment called ‘* Nai’ which is the same as the gg 3 but with a bamboo 
sowing tube in addition. With the use of this Nai, an area of 1°50 to 
2°00 acres is sown ii day, and hence i nastics where rabi areas pre- 
whea 
the y ear a Pe two coultered Drill was "ened for wheat sowing 
b 
inquiry into the causes ot — ooh Aenea it was found that 
— r “anal sowing, o sowing whi e 
the factors responsible for this result, future rig aoa 
were 5 tnseatone directed, both for the verification of previous resu ul! 
well as, for isolating the arkenth which each one of these factors exer- 
eised on cro 
The fo olowing table gives the results of 4 years trials with the Drill 
and ae 
Table ‘No. . — outturns of wheat in Ibs. per acre with the 
Drill and the 

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