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the other. In both cases the soil lacks lime, and, although in lesser 

 degree, phosphates: nitrogen and potash, however, are present in good 

 quantity. 



Sample No. 3 was taken on Mr. G. Palmer's farm Cranmere or Gal- 

 genbosch. 



The following figures were obtained by analysis: 



No. 



(Method I.) 

 Percent, of Percentage of Soil sifted through 1 rn.m 



Field 

 Sample. 

 No. Fine earth. Water. 



Sieve. 



Percentage of Soil sifted 

 through \ mm. Sieve. 



Phos- 



99-5 

 99-1 



4-34 

 4-21 



Organic 

 matter. 



13-54 

 14-09 



(Method II.) 



Percentage of Soil sifted through 1 mm. Sieve. 

 Water. Organic Chlorine. Nitrogen. 



2'81 



No. 



1. 



2. 



3. 



4. 



5. 



6. 



7. 



8. 



9. 

 10. 

 11. 

 12. 

 13. 

 14. 

 15. 

 16. 

 17. 

 18. 

 19. 

 20. 

 21. 

 22. 

 23. 

 24. 



Organic 

 matter. 



5-65 



Percentage of Soil sifted 



through 3 mm. Sieve. 

 Lime. Potash. Phos- 

 phoric 



Oil 



STELLENBOSCH. 



68 



'31 



01 



(Officially collected.) 



Field Cornetcy. 

 Klapmuts. 



Farm or place. 

 Elsenburg. 



Collector. 

 A. Simoni. 



A. C. MacDonald. 



Nooitgedacht. C. F. Juritz. 



Nineteen samples of surface soils and subsoils were collected on the 

 Government Farm Elsenburg; these soils were taken from different parts 

 of the farm, the surface soils to a depth of eight inches, and the subsoils, 

 represented by Nos. 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14, from eight inches to a depth 



