Essay mi the Analysis of Soils, 



59 



fertile. This table is the result of very patient investigation, the 

 natural fertility of each soil being ascertained by its average pro- 

 duce with common tillage and manuring. It is as follows : 



No. 



Clay. 



oanu. 



Carb. of 

 Lime. 



Humus. 



Compa- 

 rative 

 Value. 





1 



74 



10 



4 



Hi 



100 





2 



81 



6 



4 





98 



,Rich alluvial soils. 



3 



79 



10 



4 





96 





4 



40 



22 



36 



4 



90 









49 





27 





1 he value oi this could not 



f; 

 «j 



14 



10 





{ be fixed, as it was grass- 

 l laud J perhaps bog-earth. 



6 



20 



67 



3 



10 



78 



7 



58 



36 



2 



4 



77 





8 



56 



30 



12 



2 



75 



Good wheat and barley- 



9 



60 



38 





2 



70 



lands. 



10 



48 



50 





2 



65 





11 



68 



30 



o 



2 



60 





12 

 13 



38 

 33 



60 

 65 



tie ca 

 if lime 



2 

 2 



60 



50 



Barley-land, not fit for 

 wheat. 



14 



28 



70 





2 



40 





15 



23i 



75 





14 



30 



Poor sand, fit only for 



16 



18J 



80 



> 



li 



20 



oats or buck-wheat. 



The specific gravity of these lands is not given. 



IIL.— 'Account of the Imp-ovements which have taken place in the 

 Agriculture of Scotlaiid since the formation of the Highland 

 Society, Sfc. 8fc. : Essay to which the Society s Prize of fifty 

 pounds was aivarded. By Mr. John Dudgeon, of Sky law, 

 near Kelso. 



The influence which the patronage of the powerful and the rich 

 exerts in the promotion of industry, independently of direct en- 

 couragement, is in no branch so conspicuous in its effects as in 

 that of Agriculture. This seems to have been so long under- 

 stood, and the importance of husbandry so universally admitted, 

 that we read in the early history of all nations, celebrated for their 

 advancement in civilization and the arts, the marked encourage- 

 ment which agriculture received. The long duration of the Chi- 

 nese empire, its extent, and population, and power, are justly at- 

 tributed to the proud position given to agriculture, and the re- 



