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good response has been made by certain district boards,
such as Gujranwala, Sialkot, Amritsar and Gurdaspur,
to help to increase the average milk yield of village
buffaloes by creating keenness amongst local zamindars
and by providing the necessary funds for the purchase
of buffalo bulls where these are below the standard
required.

The department is experiencing the need of a
Government buffalo-breeding farm from which issues of
pedigree buffalo bulls can be made to districts. The
Jalalabad area of Feroze pore District has hitherto
furnished the requirements of the central districts for
buffalo bulls.

                         (c) Others.

40. There are indications, particularly in the
Ferozepore District, of some revival of interest in the
possibilities of the camel for agriculural purposes.

To meet this demand, a scheme of subsidising
specially selected privately owned camel stallions has
been drawn up by the department and the necessary
funds provided by the district board. The scheme is
now in its second year and promises to give very satisfac-
tory results. Efforts have been confined to a portion of
the Abohar Tahsil, where there are now 10 camel stallions
on subsidy work. Four hundred and twelve coverings
have been registered against 340 in the previous year.
There is great scope for expansion of this scheme in the
Abohar Tahsil when the necessary funds and staff
can be provided.

Enquiries are also being conducted by the depart-
ment into the possibilities of reviving camel-breeding
in other suitable areas of the province as an aid to
agriculture.

               Sheep-and Goat-breeding.

41. Government has extended its sanction to the
supply of rams and ewes from the Government Cattle
Farm, Hissar, to approved breeders in hill districts at
a concession rate, experimentally for 3 years. A similar
scheme for the supply of merino sheep to Kangra Dis-
trict only at a concession rate has been in force from