338 ANALYSES OF NOVA SCOTIAN SOILS. — -HARLOW. 



EXPLANATION OF TABLE I. 



A. — Average of 200 United States fertile surface soils. 

 Snyder, Minnesota Exp. station. 



No. 5 — From the head of Wentworth valley, Cumber- 

 land county, would be made up of debris from the igneous 

 rock of the Cobequids; organic matter is due to the field being 

 used as pasture for a long time. 



No. 5- — The Silurian rock area in Nova Scotia is small; 

 this sample from near Wentworth Station is a mixture of 

 decayed igneous rock, Silurian sandstone and Drift. 



Nos. 1 and 2 — are typical of the large Permian areas 

 north of the Cobequids. No. 1 is a very productive hay 

 field. No. 2 is virgin soil. 



No. 3— is a fairly productive soil from Wentworth 

 Center, Millstone Grit area. 



No. 4 — is a subsoil from a model orchard at Aspen, 

 Guysboro county. 



No. 5a — is an average of 5 soils from the Limestone areas 

 Stewiacke and Musquodobit valleys. 



No. 7 — is a well cultivated and productive field at 

 Antigonish on the Carboniferous limestone. 



No. 8 — is from the same geological formation at Went- 

 worth, Cumberland county. 



No. 9 is a surface virgin soil from Government farm, 

 Truro. 



No. 10 — is an upland soil on the Midland railway about 

 eight miles from Truro. 



No. 11 — From Atlanta, Kings county; an orchard soil. 

 No. 12 — A surface, virgin soil from central Lunenburg. 

 No. 13 — A soil from Hectanooga, Digby county, farm 

 of Father Broque. 



