Somerset West, etc. The soils derived from this granite are very fertile 

 when the rock whence they were produced has been thoroughly disin- 

 tegrated and decomposed but not otherwise. 



The two classes of soils above mentioned form the principal broad 

 types of this division ; they bear a general resemblance, therefore, to those 

 of the Cape Division. 



Proceeding from the village of Malmesbury, about ten miles in a 

 north-easterly direction, two soils were collected from the farm Twee Kuilen. 

 The occupant of the farm Vaderlandsche Rietkuil, where the next sample 



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was taken, appeared to have progressed somewhat beyond the system of 

 manuring by convenience noticed in some of the Cape Division farms:* 

 he generally employed horse or sheep manure for fertilising his land, but 

 declared that, according to his experience, the portion of the farm whence 

 sample No. 4 was taken was sufficiently productive to need no other than 

 horse manure. Two and three-quarter miles further to the north, from 

 the comparatively small farm Witkei, situated 15| miles N.N.W. of Mal- 

 mesbury and occupied by Mr. Gert Rust, three samples were collected. 



See page 40. 



