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munityon account of both its useful qualities and its cheapness. 

 It is likewise valuable from the fact that the main body of this 

 soap is found readily in our country in inexhaustible quantities. 



H. MEIGS, 

 GEO. F. BARNARD. 



ANALYSIS OF SOIL FROM WESTCHESTER COUNTY. 



General Chandler : 



Dear Sir — Enclosed you will please receive the analysis of a 

 surface and sub-soil from Westchester county, New-York. The 

 farm from which this soil is taken lies adjoining the Harlem 

 river. Accompanying the analysis is a copy of my instructions 

 for its improvement, &c. 



I remain yours, &c., 



J. J. MAPES, 

 Editor of The Working Farmer. 



Newark, Dec. 20, 1851. 



Dear sir — Some delay in the analysis of your soil has prevented 

 my replying at an earlier date. 



I am sorry to find that your soil owes so much of its fertility 

 to the manures you have" used, the results of which, by full 

 cropping, have been removed, and the ultimate constituents re- 

 maining are not of such kinds as to give permanent utility, nor 

 even maximum crops, by the use of stable manure alone ; nor 

 can that kind of manure be used alone with a due attention to 

 profit. 



I give below a table, arranged so as to enable you to compare 

 your soils with those of known fertility, by which you can see 

 at a glance what are the deficiencies of your soils, and thus be 

 able to correct them, and render their character more permanently 

 fertile. 



All this may be done without any material expense, as com- 

 pared with the increased crops of the first three years, beside 



