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The collection of soil samples in this Division commenced with A 

 visit to the farm Klipheuvel, 2j miles W.N.W. of the village of Caiedon; 

 here sample No. 11, a sandy clay soil, was taken. About 6J miles north- 

 west of this farm, sample No. .5, a loose clay, was collected on the farm/ 

 Rietfontein; the soil represented by this sample had not been cultivated 

 for ten years. Proceeding thence about three miles to the south, No. 6, 

 a sandy clay, was taken from Mr. J. le Roux's farm The Vlei. Neigh- 

 bouring farmers stated that there is a noticeable difference between the 

 crops raised at that place, and those at Langhoogte, a farm lying nearly 

 a mile south of The Vlei. Samples Nos. 7 and 8 were accordingly col- 

 lected at Langhoogte, both of them sandy clays; No. 8, however, is more 

 of a Karroo type, and was considered to show greater fertility than No. 

 7. As will be seen from the table below, the only chemical superiority 



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that the former of these two soils shows over the latter is in respect of the 

 phosphoric oxide contained ; in the same respect it is also better than the 

 soil taken at The Vlei. 



The next place visited was the farm Avontuur, about 5i miles south- 

 west of Langhoogte; and here a stiff clay, sample No. 9, was collected. 

 Proceeding about two miles in an easterly direction along the Zwart 

 River, another stiff clay soil, sample No. 10, was obtained on the farm 

 Dasjesfontein a soil that had not been cultivated during the last four 

 years, and quite different in character from any of the former samples. 

 It will be noticed that analysis shows it to contain a very much larger 

 proportion of phosphoric oxide. From the farm Muurton. or Klein 

 Zwart River, about 4J miles south-east of Dasjesfontein, two samples. 

 No. 12, a stiff clay soil, and No. 13, a loose clay from an alkaline or brack 

 land were taken. The soil represented by the latter of these two sam- 

 ples had not been cultivated for about five years; as will be observed 



