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The following table shows the character of exhausted arable soils, 

 of newly laid down pasture lands, and of old pasture soils at Kotham- 

 sted, England; of some other old arable soils; of some Illinois and 

 Manitoba prairie soils ; and, lastly, of some very rich Eussian soils, iii 

 regard to their percentages of nitrogen and carbon, taken from the same 

 report, p. 419 : 



TABLE II. Nitrogen and carbon in various soils. 



Calculated on soil dried at 100 C. 



