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COMPOSITION OF KOTHAMSTED SOIL 



and fine earth for successive layers 9 inches thick, down to a 

 depth of 3 feet, on each of the chief experimental fields : 



TABLE XL 



The mechanical analyses set out in Table XII. show that 

 the Eothamsted soil is fairly uniform in the different fields, and 



TABLE XII. Mechanical Analysis of Rothamsted Soils. 



consists essentially of a heavy loam containing little coarse sand 



