FROM THE WESTERN DISTRICT. 
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ANALYSIS OF THE SUBSOIL. 
Water_ 
Organic matter_ 
Silica and silicates_ 
Peroxide of iron and alumina 
The same combined_ 
Carbonate of lime_ 
Lime combined_ 
Magnesia (free)_ 
do (combined)_.... 
Soluble silica_ 
First process. 
13*5151 
8*3680 
62*41915 
14*41117 
0*0000 
0*7715 
0*0000 
0*2315 
0*0000 
Second process. 
0*0000 
0*0000 
57*8715 
0*0000 
4*0600 
0*0000 
0*5000 
0*0000 
0*0600 
99*8818 62*4315 
_ 0*0925 
The examination of the surface soil for soluble silica and soluble matter, without ignition, 
gave 20*1207 of soluble matter, and soluble silica 0*1852. About double the quantity is 
obtained when the soil is not raised to a red heat: this we have found to be a constant 
result. These soils lie upon the upper part of the Marcellus slate ; and upon the surface 
there are a good many boulders or fragments of rock derived from the Chemung group, 
and also some large boulders of blue limestone scattered over the farm. 
The following is an analysis of soil from another piece of land of the same farm, which 
was cleared in 1816, and has been cropped most of the time since. Wheat has been 
grown on the land for five years in succession : average crop, thirty bushels per acre. It 
is now down (1846) to grass. The crops have never been poor. 
ANALYSIS. 
Water_ 10*0967 
Organic matter_ 14*4271 
Silicates. 71*1632 
Peroxide of iron and alumina_ 3*2712 
Carbonate of lime- 0*9721 
Magnesia... 0*0308 
Soluble silica. 0*0308 
99*9919 
ANALYSIS OF THE SUBSOIL.. 
Water_ 2*0089 
Organic matter_ 4*2433 
Silicates. 86*9623 
Peroxide of iron and alumina_ 4*9942 
Carbonate of lime_ 0*3066 
Magnesia__ 0*0617 
Soluble silica. trace. 
98*5790 
Phosphates not appreciable in 100 grains. 
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