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Newhjn D< n-ns. 



St. Brioclt's. 



Si, Br'iocli' 

 Suhnoxls. 





Waste. 



Culti- 

 vatecl. 



Waste. 



Culti- 

 vated. 



Waste. 



Culti- 

 vated. 



Laboratory number ... 







10 



11 



10 ^ 



11 



Fine gravel 



Coarse sand 



Fine sand 



Silt 



Fine silt 



Clay 



8- 7 



9- 2 

 20-3 

 24-2 

 17-5 



6-6 



7-4 



.TO 



18-3 

 27-8 

 15-3 

 100 



2-4 

 61 

 28-9 

 17-8 



20'8 

 9-3 



4-7 

 8-5 

 22-8 

 30-3 

 12-9 

 6-6 



3-9 

 7-4 

 29-4 

 16-2 

 21-0 

 9-2 



3-5 

 7-2 

 21-3 

 33-9 

 11-0 

 11-5 



Stones^ . 







20 



15 



17 



24 



Organic n)aiter 



Nitrogen 



Carbonates 



Acidity... 



Lime requiiement 



Total potash (K.^O) ... 



Total phosphates ( I'a ) 



7-6 

 0-21 

 nil 

 present 



9-2 

 0-27 

 nil 

 present 



9-6 

 0-23 

 nil 

 present 

 0-06 

 0-3o 

 03 



9-0 

 0-30 

 002 

 present 

 0-23 

 0-55 

 0-07 



6-1 

 0-10 

 nil 

 present 

 0-37 

 0-48 

 0-01 



6-9 

 0-15 

 nil 

 present 

 0-21 

 0-32 



cultivation by the Duchy of Cornwall in 1909-10 at a cost of 

 approximately £11 per acre. Since the land readily lets at £1 

 per acre the project has been profitable. The gorse and heather 

 were burnt, and the land was ploughed; no further treatment 

 was needed. The chief expense was incurred in making the 

 road through the land and in setting out and enclosing the fields. 

 These are of 8 acres each and fenced in with the usual Cornish 

 earth wall faced with stone, on the top of which hazel and other 

 bushes will grow; substantial fences are needed to shelter the 

 live stock. The main feature of the farming is stock raising, 

 and the farmers usually adopt the following rotation — oats, roots, 

 barley, seeds mixture — which is then left as long as possible ; 

 some of it has been down too long and is beginning to be weedy. 

 The land obviously needs lime which was not applied as part of 

 the reclamation : spurry, sorrel and polygonium are all common 

 on the stubbles, but the reclamation has been a complete success. 



Sandy Peats. — Numerous instances of these soils occur in 

 Cornwall, and they are commonly in bad repute. Few people 

 who know them speak well of the black granite, or as they are 

 locally called " growan," soils of Cornwall, yet there seems 

 no reason why they should not be cultivated. Some of them 

 are very acid — one indeed is the most acid soil the writer has 

 found in England — but this could be overcome by a safficient 

 dressing of lime. 



