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2 bottles cognac brandy, from B. N. Bugby, Natoma vineyards, California. 
2 bottles brandy made from litterings, 
2 bottles brandy made from wine, 
6 bottles port wine, . 
6 bottles Angelica wine, 
6 bottles Muscat wine, cm Perkins, Stern & Co, New York, California 
from N. Carrigan, Sonoma, California. 
6 bottles hock wine, wines and brandy donated by Koehler & Frohling. 
6 bottles clavet wine, 
2 bottles brandy, 4  § 
1 bottle brandy, Mrs. Yount. 
bottle wine, Mrs. Yount. 
No. 3 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
Washington, D. C., December 11, 1866. 
Sir: I herewith enclose copies of analyses of soils forwarded by you to this 
laboratory, October 10, 1866. - 
The soils forwarded were four in number. A sample of subsoil was forwarded 
by Messrs. Griswold, but it being of similar character with the surface, an anal- 
ysis of it was not made. The analyses have been so conducted as to give not 
only the present constitution of the soil, showing its available materials, but 
also to show what materials will naturally be contributed by the decay of the 
soil within a limited period, say twelve or eighteen months. This information 
is conveyed in the second column of the analyses forwarded; if the whole 
numbers be assumed to be pounds weight, then by multiplying by fifty, the 
amount on an acre is approximately obtained. 
It may be remarked of these soils, that while they all appear favorable to 
the growth of the vine, they are of very different texture and composition. Thus 
the soil of Mr. Perley is a sandy loam of a dark hue, the coloring of which is 
due to the contact of its vegetable matter with the iron of the soil, and which, 
were it intended for general cultivation, would certainly be benetited by liming, 
as it isremarkably deficient in lime. On the other hand, the soil of Griswold & 
Son is a*heavy red soil, ferruginous and aluminous, derived from the rock or 
subsoil immediately below it. The magnesia element is in the same proportion 
with Mr. Perley’s soil, but the lime element is nearly eight times as abundant. 
Again, the soil of Mr. Bugby is a soil of indifferent quality as regards consti- 
tution, and not capable of being benefited much by the slate rock on which it 
rests, while the soil of Messrs. Schell and Krause, also an indifferent soil, yet 
rests on a material which, by weathering, is capable of enriching the ground in 
lime, magnesia,,and phosphoric acid, as indicated in the second table. ‘These ob- 
servations are drawn out by a comparison of the soils, and go to prove that 
there are many other elements of fertility in land than the mere mineral consti- 
tution of the soil; these elements are climate, aspect of land, water moving 
through the soil, (irrigation,) and good drainage. 
I remain, sir, very respectfully, 
THOMAS ANTISELL, Chemist. 
Hon. Isaac Newron, Commissioner. 
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