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57, and 58, and two others of apparently wider extent in the 
northern portion of the same district and in the south of Zwartland ; 
the former of these two is represented by samples 63, 64, and 65, 
and the latter by Nos. 69, 70, and 73. As many as 45 of the soils 
are poor in phosphoric oxide; five of these are poor in phosphoric 
oxide and potash (and this is notably the case with the farm 
Phesante Kraal, near Durban), while eight are poor in phosphoric 
oxide and lime, and, as already observed, 16 are poor all round, 
leaving a balance of 16 samples which show poverty in phosphoric 
oxide only. Hight samples were poor in lime only, three poor in 
potash only, and five poor in both lime and potash, There are, 
therefore, only seven samples that do not show a deficiency in 
respect of one or other of the three fertilising constituents, and even 
out of these seven, six are no better than fair all round, while the 
seventh—No. 102—is rich in lime, contains a normal amount | of 
potash and a fair quantity of phosphoric oxide. Ee 
The six Bredasdorp soils examined were all, without axdaptien! 
poor in phosphoric oxide; two of them—Nos. 108 and 110—par- 
ticularly ; all of these soils, however, yielded at least a fair amount of 
lime, but in three—Nos. 109, 110, and 111—the potash was likewise 
deficient. -The average composition of these six soils is—lime ‘17, 
potash ‘065, phosphoric oxide ‘016. The sample from the Robertson 
Division showed a good percentage of lime and a fair amount a 
potash, but phosphoric oxide was deficient. 
~. We now come to the soils of the Bokkeveld beds, numbering 76. 
The following table shows the analytical results :— 
| 
9 
H = =| E q 3 
Name of Farm and No. 9 a3 a 30 3 E AS 
of Sample. 3 noe Ss q = 2 ore 
= | Of a = 4 ow go 
Pa 
Diviston—CaLEDon. 
Field-Cornetcy : Upper River 
Zonder End | 
115, Middelplants.ncmesscsme5 es 73 | 2°67 | °55 084 | ‘270 | 13 | 033 
Field-Cornetcy: Zwart River ; 
HG. Zwart River natsc-estaease 1:24 | 669 | 0086 | 15 034 | 13 | ‘059 
Te 4 55 jy” Ne aeteatne See ate veel, “OL | 2:15} 098 | 091 | ‘018 | :043 | -038 
Freld-Cornetcy : Bot and . 
Palmiet Rivers ed 
iis. niet Fontein ....:....0vnens 1:60 | 6°57 | 0038 | -17 ‘093 | :050'| :058 
hu 2 0101 5 0 (ee 1:44 | 633 | 0040 | -15 | °028 | ‘056 | :036 
120) ame Hoogte .0i.:...ceabsccees 2°04 | 11°71 | ‘0038 | °25 083 | '073 | :032 . 
UZ... © 55 BI. sprspmnnatoiaite getean 1:42 | 6°60 | 0056 | ‘15 ‘030 | :038 | :058 
TERESA OMUUIAT _\ ssdiciseienscen cewtaedels 148 | 757 | O17 | 15 ‘026 | 098 | 049 
