6 jMASS. experiment station RULLETIN 300 



available form. The scattered high values from other types are doubtless purely 

 accidental. They probably represent areas which, unknown to their present 

 owners, were formerly under cultivation and hence received applications of either 

 manure or fertilizers. The soil which showed a very high value for available phos- 

 phorus (172 parts per million) was from a pasture which casual inspection showed 

 to be much superior to the average from the standpoint of freedom from brush and 

 weeds, and also with respect to the quantity of herbage and closeness of the turf. 



Table 2 — Analytical Data of Pasture Soils 



Soil type 



and 

 location 



Gloucester Loam : 



Sterling 



Webster 



Douglas 



Brimfield 



Hampden 



Prescott 



New Salem 



Average 



ColrainLoam: 



Conway 



Ashfield 



Colrain 



Average 



BeckelLoam: 



Windsor 



Washington 



Sandisfield 



Average 



SlockhridgcLoam : 



Hancock 



Pittstield 



Egremont 



Average 52.2 



Miscellaneous Types: 

 Brookfield loam 



(Brimfield) 51.9 



Hinckley gravelly loam 



(Wales) 60.8 



Woodbridge stony loam 



(Huntington) 67.0 



Peru loam 



(Chester) 57.5 



5.98 



5.56 

 5.39 

 5.55 

 5.85 



iThe term "fiiip soil" is used to designate that portion of the original sample which passed through 

 a sieve having 100 meshes to the linear inch. 



2The values reported in this column are for the spring samples of grass taken at the time the soil 

 samples were taken. 



30rigina' unsifted sample not available for these three soils which had been sampled in 1929 by 

 the .Agronomy Department of the State College. 



•*\'ot included in the average. This soil contained a large amount of small, unweathered slate 

 fraj^ments and seemed to he of a somewhat different type from the other samples of Stockbridge 

 loam. It is mapped, however, as belonging to the Stockbridge series. 



