At Kluitjes Kraal, near Ceres Road Railway Station, is a Govern- 

 ment Forest Plantation, whence, from different spots around the old 

 homestead, four samples of sandy loam garden soil and adjacent old 

 garden soil were collected : these four soils are represented in the tables 

 by Nos. 7, 8, 9, and 10. No. 6 represents a black soil taken from the 

 river bed on the same farm. This soil is, as may be surmised, much finer 

 grained than the sandstone soils, and is fairly well supplied with organic 

 matter and nitrogen, but the mineral components of plant food, although 

 less scanty than in the sandier soils, are far from satisfactory for crops, 

 although probably sufficient for the tardier requirements of arboriculture. 



At Knolle Vallei, a farm adjacent to Kluitjes Kraal, and purchased 

 by the Government for the purpose of a railway sleeper plantation, two 

 samples were procured through the Conservator of Forests. Of these, 

 No. 11 was a dark, and No. 12 a fine-grained light-coloured clay: they 

 were taken from a hill about a mile east of the homestead. The surface 

 soil in the vicinity had the appearance of a very rich clayey loam, about 

 fifteen inches deep, the subsoil being a stiff reddish clay. 



In the Winterhoek Field Cornetcy a sample was collected on the 

 farm Misgund. The locality forms the very tip of the tongue of clay 

 slate which runs up north between the sandstone of the Witjienberg 

 Range on the east, and that of the Roode Zand Mountains on the west, 

 and is cut off by the Winterhoek Mountains on the north. The soil is 

 therefore naturally very poor in all plant food constituents^ for the 

 locality is a cul-de-sac of clay slate, surrounded on three sides by sandstone 

 mountains. The soil had been used for the cultivation of tobacco, and 

 had been manured. The sample was collected from, a hillside, and con- 

 sisted of a somewhat gravelly clay, the subsoil being a fine yellow clay. 

 The local agriculturists declare that, unless manured, this soil proves 

 almost worthless, and herein is again exemplified the confirmation by prac- 

 tical experience of the opinions based upon the chemical analysis of the 

 soil. 



The chemical analyses* of the Tulbagh soils resulted in the figures 

 tabulated below : 



(Method I.) 



Percent, of 



Field 

 Sample. 



Percentage of Soil sifted through 1 mm. 

 Sieve. 



Percentage of 9oil sifted 

 through mm. Sieve. 



Phos- 



* Partial mechanical analyses of Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 6 will be found under the heading 

 of " Physical composition of soils " (Part VII). 



