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No. 1 was a light tobacco, used for smoking. No. 2 was grown on laud that had been 

 limed, and was considered a fair sample of marketable tobacco. 



Cotton (Gossypium herbacenm). — I have made no attempt to analyze the stalk of this 

 plant, nor of tlie seed. The ashes of the stalk as grown on the small farm of Mr. Geo. Jones 

 are composed as follows : 



TABLE No. 1.— Ashes of the Stalk. 



Silica 15-5 



Alumina 2'7 



Peroxide of iron 3-4 



Potassa 20-5 



Soda 10-5 



Lime 8-2 



Magnesia 5-5 



Carbonic acid 16-5 



Phosphoric acid 9"0 



Sulphuric acid 7*5 



Chlorine 05 



99-8 

 O-'i 



I have attempted the organic analysis of the cotton yarn. 



Lo.ss 



Total .10000 



Table No. 2 gives the result: 



TABLE No. 2.— Cotton Yarn. 

 Carbon 65-15 ; Hydrogen 4-50 ; Oxygen 30-35=100'00 

 Dr. Ure has given the following as the composition of the ashes of the Sea Island Cotton 

 fibre: 



TABLE No. 3.— Ash of Sea Island Cotton. 



Phosphate of lime 90 



Carbonate of lime 10-C 



Phosphate of magnesia .. 8-4 



Peroxide of iron 3-0 



Carbonate of potash 44-8 



Chloride of potassium ... 9-9 



Sulphate of potash 9-3 



Alumina a trace, and loss. 5-0 

 Total 100-0 



The soil of this County I have examined with some care, though not as extensively as I 

 desired and intended. I anticipated much pleasure and profit ui analyzing the various boUs 

 of the County and in forming an agricultural map ; but the unusual pressure of College du- 

 ties and other circumstances, have thus far forbidden. The following Table contains such 

 analyses of the soil as I have made : 



TABLE No. 1 — Containing the Composition of various Specimens of Soil and Subsoil of 

 Mecklenburg County, Virginia. 



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