338 ANALYSES OF NOVA SCOTIAN SOILS. HARLOW. 



EXPLANATION OF TABLE I. 



A. Average of 200 United States fertile surface soils. 

 Snyder, Minnesota Exp. station. 



No. 5 From the head of Wentworth valley, Cumber- 

 land county, would be made up of debris from the igneous 

 rock of the Cobequids; organic matter is due to the field being 

 used as pasture for a long time. 



No. 5 The Silurian rock area in Nova Scotia is small; 

 this sample from near Wentworth Station is a mixture of 

 decayed igneous rock, Silurian sandstone and Drift. 



Nos. 1 and 2 are typical of the large Permian areas 

 north of the Cobequids. No. 1 is a very productive hay 

 field. No. 2 is virgin soil. 



No. 3 is a fairly productive soil from Wentworth 

 Center, Millstone Grit area. 



No. 4 is a subsoil from a model orchard at Aspen, 

 Guysboro county. 



No. 5a is an average of 5 soils from the Limestone areas 

 Stewiacke and Musquodobit valleys. 



No. 7 is a well cultivated and productive field at 

 Antigonish on the Carboniferous limestone. 



No. 8 is from the same geological formation at Went- 

 worth, Cumberland county. 



No. 9 is a surface virgin soil from Government farm, 

 Truro. 



No. 10 is an upland soil on the Midland railway about 

 eight miles from Truro. 



No. 11 From Atlanta, Kings county; an orchard soil. 



No. 12 A surface, virgin soil from central Lunenburg. 



No. 13 A soil from Hectanooga, Digby county, farm 

 of Father Broque. 



