145 

 WILLOWMORE. 



(Privately collected.) 



No. Field Cornetcy. Farm or place. Collector. 



1. Willowmore. Van der Westhuyzen's Kraal. G. Kilgour. 



This sample was collected from lands which it was proposed to irrigate, 

 oil the farm Van der Westhuyzen's Kraal, adjoining the farm Klipfontein, 

 and bordering on the Willowmore village commonage. The sample was 

 taken in the vicinity of the southerly beacon on the first-named farm. 

 The soil lies on a considerable and level extent of Bokkeveld beds, free 

 from extraneous modifying influence, and should therefore be expected to 

 yield better chemical results than even such soils as those from Wilgehouts 

 Rivier and Roode Heuvel in the Uniondale Division. 



According to the analysis below, there is a good reserve of phosphatic 

 material in the soil in a condition available for plants : 



(Method II.) 



Percentage of Soil sifted through 1 mm. Percentage of Soil sifted 



Sieve. through 3 mm. Sieve. 



Phos- 



No. Water. Organic Chlorine. Nitrogen. Lime. Potash. phoric 



matter. oxide. 



1. 2-55 4-87 -0044 "077 '336 '193 '171 



W1LLOWVALE. 



(Officially collected.) 



No. Field Cornetcy. Farm or place. Collector. 



1. Willowvale. Government Plantation. St. C. O. Sinclair. 



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In the district of Willowvale three samples of soil were collected from 

 the area intended for the Government plantation at this place. No. 1, 

 a black clayey soil, was taken, to a depth of ten inches, from a hillside 

 facing north. No. 2 represents a patch covered by a long coarse 5 grass, 

 which, in these parts, is regarded as an indication of great fertility. No. 

 3 is the subsoil underlying No 2. The soil in many parts of this planta- 

 tion consists of a rich black earth, one to two feet in depth, below which 

 is a layer of red gravel, containing a considerable quantity of ironstone 

 pebbles. Under this there is a yellow pot-clay, or rock decomposing into 

 clay. 



No. 4 was a sample of black soil, taken about 12 miles west of Wil- 

 lowvale, and representative of a great part of the Willowvale district. 



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