110 



This division was visited only incidentally, and samples were taken 

 from not mor than a single farm, that of Mr. J. Fronemann, junr., lying 

 just across the Kei River, in the Gwatyu Field Cornetcy. The subsoil 

 below the place where No. 1 was taken is of a clayey character. No. 2 

 represents a. dark, loamy, alluvial soil, on a pot-clay subsoil, lying east 

 of the homestead. The land represented is reported to be fertile, oats 

 especially doing well upon it. No. 3 is a similar soil to No. 2, and was 

 collected in the same direction. No. 4 was taken from a dark clayey 

 soil, also lying east of the homestea-d, but nearer the river bank than either 

 Nos. 2 or 3. 



(Privately collected.) 



Uo. Field Cornetcy. Farm or place. Collector. 



5. Whittlesea. Poplar Grove. F. Walsh. 



Two samples of the soil occurring on the farm Poplar Grove were 

 collected, No. 5 being a red, and No. 6 a black soil. 



The following are the results of the analyses of these soils : 



(Method I.) 



Percent, of Percentage of Soil sifted through Percentage of Soil sifted 



Field 1 mm. Sieve. through mm. Sieve. 



Sample. Phos- 



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



matter. oxide 



1. 85-0 2-36 4-82 '0060 '098 '346 '191 '041 



2. 94-6 1-40 3-26 '0050 '091 '248 '127 '027 



3. 96-5 1-80 4-65 '0064 '084 '170 '158 "013 



4. 98-9 2-46 6'57 '0067 '126 '354 '209 "051 



5. 99-2 1-34 2-68 '0831 "046 '150 '203 '052 



6. 98'5 4-41 7'45 '0078 '119 T762 "215 '084 



In this division, as in the adjoining division of Wodehouse, a distinct 

 tendency towards alkalinity is exhibited by certain soils, of which No. 5 

 in the above list is an instance note its proportion of chlorine. Prac- 

 tically all the Queenstown soils examined were deficient in phosphates : 

 potash and lime are, generally speaking, present in ample quantities. 



RICHMOND. 



(Privately collected.) 



No. Field Cornetcy. Farm or place. Collector. 



1. East Uitvlugt, Toonbothasfontein. C. T. Ackermann. 



2. ,, 



These two samples were taken from lands which were being used 

 for the cultivation of cereals. On the soil represented by No. 1, wheat 

 was grown, and although the straw produced was satisfactory, the grain 

 was less so, the ears being rather short. The soil from which No. 2 was 



