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Field Cornetcy. 

 Durban 



Palen and Rietvlei. 



Koeberg No. 1. 



Farm or Place. 

 Diemersdal 









 Phesante Kraal. 



Vissers Hok. 

 Government land 



north of Vissers 



Hok. 

 Vrymansfontei.il. 







Rondeboschjesberg. 

 Ongegund. 

 Altona. 

 Adderley. 

 Hooge Kraal. 



Collector. 



F. Blersch. 

 C. F. Juritz. 



J. G. Rose. 



Koeberg No. 2. 



Klein Olifants Kop. C. F. Juritz. 

 Kalkfontein. 



Uitkyk. 



Blauwberg. 



Dassen Vallei. 

 Klein Dassen Berg. 

 Lange Rug. 



J. C. Water meyer. 



The first five samples were collected at the T'okai Convict Station: 

 No. 1 was a very poor sandy soil from the vicinity of the camp which had 

 been used for interning prisoners of war; it had just produced an oat 

 crop, and a similar crop was grown some five years previously, a small 

 quantity of guano having been applied for each crop. No. 2 represents a 

 dark soil which it was intended to use as a vineyard, and had been culti- 

 vated for the last twelve or fifteen years with garden crops. Farmyard 

 manure and guano had been applied at various times, and basic slag three 

 years before the collection of the sample : the old estate vineyard used to 

 be located here. The third sample was a moist black vlei ground, virgin 

 soil, but interspersed with palmiet roots. The next was a brown soil from 

 the rifle range garden cultivated for five years, and manured with farm- 

 yard manure and guano. The last of these five samples represents a 

 brown soil from the neighbourhood of the Porter Reformatory ; it had 

 also been under cultivation, but no details regarding the manures em- 

 ployed could be obtained. The last two samples proved exceedingly poor 

 in their reserve of plant food. 



Within the Municipality of Cape Town, No. 6 affords an idea of a 

 cultivated and frequently manured garden soil : the sample analysed re- 

 presents the average of the soil within the grounds of the Parliament 

 Houses. Samples were taken from different points in the grounds and 

 well mixed together, and an average sample was then subjected to che- 

 mical analysis. 



Four samples of soil from the Hon. R. P. Botha's farm Bloemhof, or 

 The Hope, were analysed. No. 7 was a yellowish sandy vineyard soil, 

 taken from north-east of the homestead ; it had not been manured during 

 recent years, and was found in practice to be very poor. No. 8 was taken 

 from another part of the vineyard, north of the homestead ; it was more 

 clayey than the foregoing, but mixed with coarse gravel : it is found to be 

 more productive than No. 7. No. 9 represents a poor and very sandy 



