ANALYSES OF XOYA SCOTIAN SOILS. HARLOW. 



EXPLAXATIOX OF TABLE III. 



No. 22s — From worn out hillside, Campbell Brothers, 

 Stewiacke. 



Xo. 16s — ]Mr. D. W. Reid, Middle Musquodobit; model 

 orchard giving good returns for 25 years; mostlj' barn manure. 



No. 6s — Property of Dr. Reynolds, Otter brook, Stew- 

 iacke; old field near river intervale. 



No. lis — Worn out hillside at IMr. E. Hamilton's, 

 Springside, Colchester county. 



No. 17s — jMiddle Musquodobit; the La^^ton farm, giving 

 fair hay crop with no cultivation. 



No. 7n — Pasture, newly broken up and given little bone 

 meal. ]\Ir. J. Cunningham, Baj^head, Colchester county. 



No. 13n — Turnip field giving good yield; previously in 

 hay for several years; 40 tons barn manure per acre. Mr. A. P 

 Semple, Brule. 



No. 12n — ]Mr. Jas. Kennedy, Brule; upland not ploughed 

 for 8 3'ears; top dressed once with barn yard manure; yield 2 

 tons per acre. 



No. 2n — McCallum's Settlement; old field. 

 No. 9n— Run "out upland; farm of Wm. Charlton, Stake 

 Road, Cumberland county. 



Averaging up these analyses we have: — 



TABLE IV. 





Acid 



Sol. 



Potash 



P2O5 



Lime 



Org. 



Nit- 

 rogen 



16 ]Marsh soils 



10 Upland 



.75 

 .34 

 .2 



.29 



.15 

 .16 

 .14 



.24 



.75 



.3 



.25 



2.16 



6.7 

 10. 

 10.3 



7. 



.18 

 25 



14 of Table I 



Average of 200 fertile sur- 

 face American soils — 

 Snyder 



.17 

 .29 



