TABLE I. 
CLASSIFICATION OF SOILS. 
No. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
THAER'S LIST. 
First class of strong Wheat^ 
Soils. ^ 
Rich light land in natural 
Grass 
Rich Barley 
Good Wheat 
Wheat Land 
Ditto 
Ditto 
Ditto 
Good Barley 
Ditto, second quality 
Ditto 
Oatland 
Ditto 
SINCLAIR'S LIST. 
Poor Silicious . . . . 
Hungry Sand . . . . 
Heath Soil 
Ilich Silicious . . . . 
Sandy Loam 
Rich black Clayey 
Clayey Loam 
Tenacious Clay . . . . 
Rich alluvial (best) 
Vegetable Mould . . 
Fertile Peat 
Mr, Tower's Loam 
Sir H. Davy's rich Soil, Drayton 
Turnip Soil 
Tillet's best Loam in France 
Loam at Chamart, used as basis } 
of artificial Soils \ 
Rich Bog Earth (Meadow) 
Polder of Orderon (Clay) 
Ditto of St. Catharine . . , 
Waes district of East Flanders . 
Arksey, near Doncaster 
Womersley 
Cantley 
Ditto Yellow Clay and Boulders . . 
Owston 
Womersley worst land 
Stockridge, near Arksey 
Clay. 
Pr.cent. 
74 
81 
79 
40 
14 
20 
58 
56 
60 
48 
68 
38 
33 
28 
234 
184 
Alumi- 
na. 
2 
1.5 
0.5 
2 
4 
5 
14.5 
13.7 
7. 
4.5 
4 
29 
11 
16 
33 
81 
52 
13 
6.2 
41 
56? 
Sand. 
Per cent. 
10 
6 
10 
22 
49 
67 
36 
30 
38 
50 
30 
60 
65 
70 
75 
80 
84 
89 
79 
74.5 
70 
41 
47 
39.7 
46 
58 
Carbn. 
of 
Lime. 
Pr.cent. 
H 
4 
4 
36 
10 
3 
2 
12 
^3 
83 fine. 
32 
15 
64 
62 
18 
21 
84 
61.5 
31 
86.5 
76 
34 
54 
35 
32 
63 
37 
Humus. 
Per cent. 
Ill 
8| 
64 
4 
27 
10 
4 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
H 
1 
"Vegetable 
Matter. 
Per cent. 
0.5 
1 
1.5 
1.5 
16 
1 
7.5 
1 
5 
5 
10 
2 
4 
6 
2 
6 
8.5 
14 
17 
11 
5 
0.8 
19 
10? 
10? 
0.5 
16 
2 ) fibres 
iron 74 
iron 3 
7 humic acid. 
15 vegetable matter. 
