234 S. W. Johnson on the Soil-analyses of the 
been performed in the attempt to satisfy the hopes that have 
been thus excited. 
The chief object of the present notice is to inquire what has 
been really accomplished for the good of the farmer, by the sei- 
entific surveys that have been hitherto prosecuted in this country. 
The labors of Dr. Peter in connection with the Kentucky and 
and his i re whereby the utmost economy of time was 
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tion, or to prove the purity of a precipitate. : 
The Analytical Process followed in these analyses is not by 
any means so minute and full as we should be warranted t0 
expect, when their author declares (4th Ky. Rep., p- 57) per 
“such a work to be eminently useful must be thorough am 
exhaustive;” for soluble silica, chlorine, nitric acid and ammoni4 
are not at all estimated, and the condition of the iron, whe 
protoxyd or peroxyd, is not noticed. It is worthy of notice no a 
carbonic acid and lime are always present in atomic proportions = 
in the soils latterly analyzed, no excess of either ingredient — a 
mentioned in the results. Carbonic acid however is not 0! ene 
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