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ANALYSES OF SOILS. 
of the soil that creates the differences we have just alluded to. More ammonia, if we may 
credit the opinions of foreign agricultural chemists, must necessarily be showered upon the 
hills and vallies as more snow and rain fall; and yet there is less fertility, or it may 
perhaps be said more properly, that the fertility runs in channels differing from those of 
the other districts. 
The first analyses which we propose to state, are those of soils within the territorial 
limits of the Wheat district. They were selected from Mount Toppin, and near Lafayette 
square in Onondaga county, at an elevation of six or seven hundred feet above the level 
of the canal at Manlius centre. Both soils are uncultivated, and that from Mount Toppin 
was taken from the forest. 
Soil of Mount Toppin. 
ANALYSIS. 
Water of absorption.___ 3*68 
Organic matter_ 6*84 
Silicates_81*32 
Peroxide of iron and alumina___ 7 *62 
Carbonate of lime__ 0*25 
Carbonate of magnesia__ 0*15 
99*86 
It contains also a trace of the phosphate of alumina and peroxide of iron. The color of 
this soil is brown, and it contains a few fragments of primary rocks, some from the Medina 
sandstone, and many belong to the strata of the Hamilton group upon which the soil 
reposes. 
Soil of Lafayette square. 
ANALYSIS. 
Water of absorption. 4*68 
O rganic matter_ 5*25 
Silicates.’._82*32 
Peroxide of iron and alumina_ 6*62 
Carbonate of lime -- 0*25 
Magnesia. 0*12 
99*24 
The color of this soil is yellowish brown, and it contains but few pebbles : it belongs also 
to the Hamilton group. The composition of both is nearly, and indeed really, the same. 
In the summary which I propose to give, a more thorough analysis of botli soils will be 
exhibited, which will show the capabilities of the soil from the hills and slopes adjacent to 
the wheat-growing vallies. 
Notwithstanding these soils were taken from the extreme northern part of the Southern 
