^8 ANALYSES OF SOtLS. , 



of the soil that creates the differences we have just alluded to. More ammonia, if we may 

 credit the opinions of foreign agricultiu'al chemists, must necessarily be showered upon the 

 hills and vallies as more snow and rain fall ; and yet there is less fertility, or it may 

 perhaps be said more properly, tliat the fertility runs in channels differing from those of 

 the other districts. 



The first analyses which we propose to state, are those of soils within the territorial 

 limits of the Wheat district. They were selected from Mount Toppin, and near Lafayette 

 square in Onondaga county, at an elevation of six or seven hundred feet above the level 

 of the canal at Manlius centre. Both soils are uncultivated, and that from Mount Toppin 

 was taken from the forest. 



Soil of Mount Toppin. 



ANALYSIS, 



Water of absorption 3'68 



Organic matter ». 6*84 



Silicates 81-32 



Peroxide of iron and alumina 7*62 



Carbonate of lime 0*25 



Carbonate of magnesia (J -IS 



99-86 



It contains also a trace of the phosphate of alumina and peroxide of iron. The color of 

 this soil is brown, and it contains a few fragments of primary rocks, some from the Medina 

 sandstone, and many belong to the strata of the Hamilton group upon which the soil 

 reposes. 



Soil of Lafayette square^ 



ANALYSIS. 



Water of absorption 4-68 



Organic matter 5-25 



Silicates .-. 82-32 



Peroxide of iron and alumina 6-62 



Carbonate of lime . . 0-25 



Magnesia 0-12 



99-24 



The color of this soil is yellowish brown, and it contains but few pebbles : it belongs also 

 to the Hamilton group. The composition of both is nearly, and indeed really, the same. 

 In the summary which I propose to give, a more thorough analysis of both soils will be 

 exhibited, which will show the capabilities of the soil from the hills and slopes adjacent to 

 the wheat-growing vallies. 



Notwithstanding these soils were taken from the extreme northern part of the Southern 



