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tliey were considered good or otherwise, I cannot do much more 
than append the following analyses of them : — 
Soils dried at 212° F, 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
Ghuggar bed 
Sotar 
Rousli 
• Organic matter and loss on heating . . 
0-63 
2-67 
0-65 
2-58 
4-32 
1^62 
1-72 
5-85 
202 
107 
1-97 
1-07 
•39 
-74 
•31 
•15 
-08 
•11 
•17 
•23 
•19 
Insoluble silicates and sand , . . . 
90-33 
81-57 
90^70 
100-00 
100-00 
100^00 
•07 
•02 
•08 
•02 
No. 1 is from Bansidhar, Sirsa subdivision — a light-coloured 
soil, containing much fine sand, with micaceous particles. No. 2, 
from Beidwala, Sirsa subdivision, is heavier, and not nearly so 
fine and sandy ; it is free from mica. No. 3 is from Gudah, 
and very like No. 1, though even finer and more sandy. What 
is characteristic in these soils is the very small quantity of vege- 
table matter, especially in No. 1 and No. 3, and consequently 
the general poverty in nitrogen. No. 3 having no appreciable 
quantity whatever. That anything like what would be con- 
sidered in this country average crops of wheat could be grown 
on such soils, without at least a large quantity of manure of 
organic and nitrogenous character, like dung, I cannot imagine ; 
and if it is on soils such as these that the small yields of wheat 
we hear of as being produced generally in India are grown, I 
am not surprised. On the other hand, in lime and in mineral 
constituents generally the soils are well supplied. No. 2 espe- 
cially so. 
Hay. — A member of the Society sent me for examination 
two samples of hay, one being Dutch hay and the other English 
meadow hay. Apart from the major consideration of the 
varieties of grasses in each sample, and the important points of 
condition, quality, and absence of weeds, it may be interesting 
to state that the analyses abundantly supported the conclusion 
arrived at practically as to the superiority of the English hay. 
The analyses were : — 
