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Plot 1 No Manure 

 " 2 Compl te Manure 

 <' 3 No Nitrogen 

 «' 4 Double Nitrogen, 

 " 5 No Phosphate 

 « 6 Double Phosphate 

 " 7 Double Superphosphate 

 " 8 Double Slag 

 «' 9 No Potash 

 •' 10 Double Potash 

 '« 11 Duuble Complete 

 It is proposed next year to add special plots for testing the efficiency 

 of lime as deduced from the analytical data. 



VERE. 

 A localisation of the sugar industry is the chief interest of the plains 

 of Vere, and this has been maintained, despite grave climatic disadvan- 

 tages and recurring periods of drought, by virtue of the very high quali- 

 ties which the soils of this sultry plain possess for the growth of the sugar 

 cane. When the newly executed irrigation works have been brought 

 into working contact with the land of the estates, security of crop 

 and a large increase of the average annual returns are self-evident. 

 Great variations in the structure of the soils of the Vere plain are 

 apparent. There is, on the whole, a tendency for the soils to become 

 heavier in texture the nearer the sea. But the gradations are by no 

 means uniform and great variations are found on the same estate and 

 even in the same field. 



Appended are the results of a series of seven soils and their subsoils 

 representative of the heavier type of land in this District. 



Chemical Analvses of Soils from Vere. Surface Soils depth 9 inches. 



