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much from drought, which is a great drawback on 
the profits of their cultivation. For sheep husbandry 
they are well adapted, the treading being invaluable — 
under favourable circumstances the produce of Barley 
will be four quarters per acre, the quality good. Wheat 
is not cultivated without the addition of Rye, and six to 
eight loads per acre are grown. 1 he cultivated grasses, 
if not too often repeated, are produced a tolerable crop : 
but the soil is too light for the permanent grasses. The 
rent averages from fourteen shillings to twenty shillings, 
but some separate fields are said to be worth forty 
shillings per acre : the latter are situated upon the next 
bed to be described as their subsoil, which makes them 
more retentive of moisture. 
The Yellow Clay and Boulders requires a separate 
notice, on account of the extent of soil which it forms, 
and of the sudden transition from a dry to a wet soil, on 
the same formation, being a tract of moist land between 
Cantley and Armthorp. This bed certainly extends 
from Doncaster to Cantley, as I found it impossible to 
bore through it at the latter place. The boulders 
identify it with the diluvial beds. The soil is too wet 
for the cultivation of the permanent grasses ; indeed, if it 
could be made to produce them, it would be invaluable 
to the occupiers of the light sandy diluvial beds ; its 
tenacity, however, as I shall shew in its analysis, is not 
owing altogether to its texture. 
Before entering upon the ciiemical analysis of these 
diluvial soils, it may be well to examine what informa- 
tion will be derived from the inquiry. The Agricultural 
Society require simply the chemical analysis of each 
formation ; and if by this we were able to pronounce 
whether a soil is fertile or infertile, or in what earth it is 
deficient, the result would be of the greatest advantage 
to the practical farmer. But it does not appear to be 
knoT^ what combination of earths produces the highest 
