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Crotalavia juncea, Cassia mimusoides 

 and Tephrosia plots have been made. 



Nurseries. — The various coffee varie- 

 ties including C- robusta and Liberian 

 have germinated. 



Wash Plots.— The loss of soil from 

 April, 1909, to December, 1909, has been 

 ascertained and calculated to the loss 

 per acre. An average analysis of 15 

 samples of this type of soil on the Experi- 

 ment Station was taken for calculating 

 the amount of plant food in the washed 

 soil. 



The results are very instructive and 

 show the excessive denudation that is 

 going on with free soils of this type. A 

 separate statement is appended. 



The roads and drains are being put in 

 order as rapidly as labour permits. 



Visitors.- There have been 241 visitors 

 to the Station since the Visitors ' Book 

 was started in June, 1909, and the general 

 interest in the work of the Station is 

 steadily increasing. 



Several gentlemen from Southern 

 India, Assam, Java and the F.M.S. have 

 paid visits, and most were specially inter- 

 ested in the green manuring experi- 

 ments, as this form of cultivation is being 

 found successful in all branches of tropi- 

 cal agriculture. 



An application has been received for 

 permission to send one or more coolies 

 here for a week to study tapping before 

 commencing work on rubber now coming 

 into bearing. This was agreed to as in a 

 previous case. 



Staff.— On the 1st instant Mr. Holmes 

 assumed charge of the Experiment 

 Station, and Mr. Wilson Smith, who has 

 been studying for some months on the 

 Station, commenced his duties as Assist- 

 ant Chemist. 



PROSPECTUS OF THE AGRICUL- 

 TURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 

 AND COLLEGE, PUSA. 



(The Prospectus is subject to such alter- 

 ations as may from time to time be 

 ordered.) 



Prefatory. 

 The Agricultural Research Institute 

 and College, Pusa, owes its inception 

 to the generosity of Mr. Henry Phipps 

 who in 1903 placed at the disposal of 

 Lord Curzon, then Viceroy and Governor- 

 General of India, a donation of £20,000 

 (which he afterwards raised to £30,000) 

 with the request that it might be de- 

 voted to some object of public utility 



in India, preferably in the direction of 

 scientific research. Part of thip dona- 

 tion was devoted to the construction 

 of a Pasteur Institute at Coonoor in 

 Southern India, and it was decided 

 that the balance should be utilized in 

 erecting a laboratory of agricultural 

 research which, it was hoped, would 

 form a centre of economic science in 

 connection with that occupation on 

 which the people of India mainly de- 

 pend. This connection was subsequently 

 enlarged, and the Government of India 

 have now constructed a college and 

 research institute to which a farm of 

 some 1,3C0 acres is attached for purposes 

 of experimental cultivation and demon- 

 stration. 



In 1903, when the research station was 

 sanctioned, it was intended to combine 

 it with a college which should give a 

 general agricultural education, and 

 should serve as a model for the few 

 agricultural colleges and schools of very 

 unequal merit which then existed in 

 India. Recently, however, this concep- 

 tion of the functions of the Pusa College 

 has undergone a material change. It 

 is now recognised that the first and 

 most essential condition of any per- 

 manent improvement in the agricultural 

 method of this country is the widest 

 possible diffusion of an organised 

 knowledge of scientific and practical 

 agriculture, and at the same time it is 

 desired to make the country as far as 

 possible self-supporting in the matter 

 of development of agricultural training 

 and research. A comprehensive scheme 

 for the promotion of agricultural edu- 

 cation throughout India has accordingly 

 been drawn up, as the result of which 

 it is hoped that every important pro- 

 vince will soon be provided with a 

 fully equipped college where students 

 will for three years receive practical 

 and scientific education in agriculture. 

 The position which the Pusa College is 

 intended to occupy in relation to this 

 general scheme is that of a higher 

 teaching institution. Its main object is 

 to enable students who have passed 

 with distinction through a course of a 

 provincial college, by means of a post- 

 graduate course in one of the specialised 

 branches of agricultural science, to 

 qualify for the higher branches of agri- 

 cultural work. 



II. The Pusa Estate. 

 The estate consists of 1,300 acres, of 

 which 400 are arable, 400 are pasture ; 

 nearly all the field crops of the plains 

 can be grown there. The farm buildings 

 are up-to-date, and herds of breeding 

 and milch cattle are maintained. There 



