67 

 KING WILLIAM'S TOWN. 



(Privately collected.) 



JXo. Field Cornetcy. Farm or place. Collector. 



1. No. 8. Evelyn valley. J. S. Anderson. 



The only sample collected for analysis within this Division was a black 

 loam, taken from some lands at Evelyn Valley, a forest station in the 

 Eastern Forests Conservancy. The soil was stated to be so poor that 

 nothing except trees will grow on it. The forest station is situated near 

 the top of the Pirie Mountain, 4,200 feet above sea-level, and 40 miles 

 from the coast almost due north of King William's Town. The surround- 

 ing farms all lie at much lower altitudes, ranging from 1,700 to 2,300 feet 

 below Evelyn. Valley. The soil at these lower levels, where the annual 

 rainfall ranges from 18 to 32 inches, has the reputation of being much more 

 fertile than that at the forest station, which has a mean annual rainfall 

 of 60 inches. The ground where the sample was taken had been broken 

 up from the veld two or three years previously ; the site of the sample was 

 a gentle slope about 200 yards from the foot of a steep kopje rising to a 

 height of 250 or 300 feet : the surface soil goes to a depth of from 12 to 

 14 inches, below which lies a red porous clay. Nearer the foot of the 

 kopje the surface soil increases to two feet or more in depth. 



The analysis of this soil resulted as follows : 



Method I. 



Percent, of Percentage of Soil sifted through 1 mm. Percentage of Soil sifted 

 Field Sieve. through inm. Sieve. 



Phos- 



Xo. Fine earth. Water. Organic Chlorine Nitrogen. Lime. Potash, phoric 



matter. oxide. 



I. 97-5 6'26 16-60 '0205 '315 '050 '082 '105 



The soil was fine in grain and contained a large quantity of nitro- 

 genous organic matter; the proportion of phosphoric oxide was satisfac^ 

 tory, but lime was deficient, and the reserve of potash was not much better. 



KNYSNA. 



(Officially collected.) 



Field Cornetcy. Farm or place. Collector. 



1. Zwart River. Geelhoutboom. C. F. Juritz. 



Roode Kraal. 

 3. Gouwkamma. Millwood. 



Portland Heights. 

 Balmoral. 



6. Portland. 



7. Plettenberg Bay. Ashby. 



S. Ganze Vallei. 



9. Holt Hill. 



10. Witte Drift. 



I 1 . Pa^rde Kop. Witte Drift. 

 12. Keurbooms River. Matjesfontein. 

 13. 



