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and occasionally overflowed by the Scioto River. It has been 

 cultivated fifty-one years ; forty-five crops of corn and two or 

 three of wheat have been taken off from it ; it has also been a 

 few years in grass or clover. It has scarcely diminished in 

 fertility, and now, with the most ordinary culture, yields on an 

 average, one 3'ear M-ith another, eighty bushels of corn to the 

 acre. 



Analj/scs. 



Whole amount of insoluble matters, silicious 



sand and clay, - - - - 83.00 per ct. 



Lime, - - - - - - 0.4 '• 



Phosphoric acid, _ _ . _ 0.0-L 



Alkalies, - - - - - O.IG ••' 



Organic matter, - - - - G.OO '• 



Another soil from the Scioto Yalley, equally productive, and 

 cultivated for eighteen years in the simplest manner, gave the 

 following results : 



Insoluble silicates, clay and sand, - - 79.00 per ct. 



Lime, ------ 1.00 '' 



Alkalies, - - - - • - 1.00 " 



Phosphoric acid, _ - - - 0.2 " 



Organic matter, - - - - 11.0 -• 



Compare now with these two analyses of soils, among the 

 best in the world, three from the county of Hampden, as 

 given in the Geological Report of Massachusetts, by President 

 Hitchcock. The first an alluvial soil from West Springfield: 



Insoluble silicates, clay and sand, - - 03.00 per ct. 



Lime, as sulphate or as gypsum. - - 1.3 " 



Phosphates, - - - - - 0.7 *' 



Organic matter, - - - - -4.0 " 



Another soil, resting upon the red sand stone, from Long- 

 meadow : 



Insoluble silicates. - . - - 92.00 per ct. 



T.ime. a? snlnhate. - _ _ _ 3.0 " 



Phosphates. - - . - - 0.6 " 



Organic matter, - - - - 3.7 " 



