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exemplified. Taking the soils, however, as they stand, none of them can 

 be said to be really deficiemt in any form of plant food, and No. 4, as al- 

 ready indicated, is rich in nitrogen, lime, and phosphates, and is more- 

 over satisfactorily stocked with potash. No. 3 is likewise rich in lime and 

 well supplied with potash and phosphates, the proportion of nitrogen 

 being normal. The remaining samples, with the exceptions noticed, are 

 satisfactorily supplied with all the principal plant food constituents. 



GEORGE. 



(Officially collected.) 



No. Field Cornetey. Farm or place. Collector. 



1. Outeniqualand. Uitkyk. J. Muller. 



2. ,, Greak Brak River. ,, 

 3- jj ?> 



Diep Kloof. C. F. Juritz. 



5. ., Palmiet. 



6. Modder River. 



7. George. Hans Moes Kraal. 



8. The Lakes. Outspan Reserve 



9. Wooclville. 



10. Diep River. 



11. Klip and Doom Rivers. Groot Doom River 

 12 



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13. Klip Drift. 



14 



jj y> 



*0 jj ,, 



16. Before Long Kloof. Grootfontein. 



17. Schoonberg. 



18. Ganze Kraal. 



19. Kykoe. 



The hamlet of Great Brak River is distant about 2| hours' cart jour- 

 ney from the town of George, in a south-westerly direction : a typical 

 sample of the intervening area is No. 1 in the above list, a " sour " soil 

 taken from Uitkyk, a farm in the George Division, but near to the Great 

 Brak River, which forms the natural boundary between the division 

 named and that of Mossel Bay. No. 2, a red and more sandy soil, typifies 

 another portion of the area referred to; it was selected from new lauds 

 on Mr. H. Barnard's farm, quite close to the main road, on the heights 

 above Great Brak River. From the lands of Mr. C. Searle, M.L.A., on 

 the left bank of the river, No. 3, in appearance a very similar soil, was 

 secured. 



After leaving Great Brak River for George a short extent of granitic 

 soil is passed over, speedily, however, succeeded by a red pot-clay. Later 

 on this in turn gives place to a blacker and looser clay, of which a sam- 

 ple, No. 4, was collected on the farm Diep Kloof, about four miles by road 

 from Great Brak River. This sample is typical of the soil of the sur- 

 rounding farms; by practical farmers it is considered to be rather poor, 

 and chemical analysis quite bears out this testimony : when manured it 

 answers well, a fact which tends to show that its defects are wholly 

 chemical. Another sample of the same class, although somewhat lighter 



