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NOTE ON THE COMPOSITION OF TWO SUGAR 



PLANTATION SOILS. 



By W. A. Dixon, F.LC, F.G.S., Lecturer on Chemistry, 



Sydney Technical College. 



[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., June 5, 1S89.2 



The two soils forming the subject of this notice Mere from a 

 sugar plantation on the Burnett River in Queensland. They 

 -were exactly alike in appearance and were described to me as 

 forest soil and scrub soil, from the different vegetation growing 

 on them, and this was the only recognisable difference to the 

 planter. In each, the soil was from fifteen to thirty feet deep, 

 the surface indications other than the natural vegetation, were 

 similar, and of course the climate was the same. Tlie soils were 

 found to differ however, extremely in their behaviour under cane 

 crops, as, whilst the scrub soil bore cane well and yielded good 

 crops, the forest soil grew plant canes well, first ratoons poor and 

 afterwards of no value. 



The reason of this is plainly shown in the analysis ; but befone 

 entering on this, it may be well to make a few remarks on soil 

 analyses as it is a branch of chemical work which has of late years 

 been somewhat discounted as of little value. It may certainly be 



