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of two feet in each case. Nearly all of these soils were fairly coarse- 

 grained. The farm lies on rocks of the Malmesbury series, but quartzita 

 is very prominent, and potash, as well as phosphoric oxide, are accordingly 

 present in only small amount; the proportion of lime is, generally speak- 

 ing, more satisfactory. Results bearing close resemblance to those ob- 

 tained from the Elsenburg soils, were yielded by the analyses of many of 

 the soils collected in the Cape Division near Durban, from the farms 

 Bloemhof and Phesante Kraal, for instance, and also in the Malmesbury 

 Division. 



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Five soils were taken on the farm Nooitgedacht, in the same Field 

 Cornetcy ; the farm lies on rocks of the Malmesbury series. Nos. 20 and 

 21, which represented clay soils, were taken respectively from the side 

 of a hill west of the homestead, and from low-lying marshy ground north 

 of the homestead. No. 22 was collected near the centre of the farm, 

 while Nos. 23 and 24 were taken from vineyards, the former near the 

 bouse, and the latter from a hillside east of the homestead. All these 

 were taken from the portion of the farm lying between the highway and 



