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Show INDIAN GRAIN TRADE LARGE Effort Being Made to En large Yield and Export Heavily The British journal. Milling, stales that in the years 1911 to 1920, inclusive. in-clusive. India produced about 44,000.-000 44,000.-000 qurs of wheat. Of that quantity, about 40,000,000 qurs were consumed In India, and only about 4,000,000 exported. Commenting upon these figures, the Journal says 'If the teld per acre can be increased by 20 per cent, the export may be doubled or trebled. The suggestion that such an IncreAi... is possible appears to be sanguine, but, stated differently. It looks more probable, for tho yield per acre was 11.6 bus, and a 20 per cent increase would raise It to only 14 bus. "The introduction of 'clean term.' In 1907 marks an epoch I EL the Indian wheat trade. Sime that purging of Augean practices, British millers have been favorably disposed toward Indian In-dian whoat. partly because It Is produced pro-duced in the British Empire, partly becauso It usually comes on tho mil ket when the supplies of other wheals are dwindling, but In addition because, be-cause, on some points of quality, it possesses interest, distinction, and characteristics which are useful in a blend. If those characteristics can be retained, and In other respects improvements im-provements be effected, then averag' Indian wheat, bought not many )n ago only If It were relatively low price, would get Into the category of things desired, a state of affairs h.i I iefactory to British buyers and still more so io Indian producer. Can be done? "Here we have, with variation, the same problem which ih home grown wheat commtttlon of the National As-I soclatlon of British and Irish Millers set out in 1901 to solve In respect of: English wheat In this counlry w ! have deficient sunshine and wet atmosphere; at-mosphere; m India the climate is sue-1 tropical. The conditions differ great ly, but the central principle la the same. Is It possible to combine relatively rel-atively high or the highest poasioie yield per acre with high or highest quality? in this country a few enthusiasts, en-thusiasts, men of faith and action, prepared to deote. If need be. a generation gen-eration to this worthy object, have ill- ready spent 20 years in neceesar'ly H slow and patient endeavors, and arw today confident of ultimate succeev 1 In India a small band, some of them I'amtindge graduates, fully acquaint-ed acquaint-ed With the work Initiated in Dng- I I d hae adopted the same methods i equally confident of success.' II |