. Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada 1901 . , since September 26, 1899. No. 3 is from the hard-pan, taken from a depth of 2 feet in the hard-pan, or 5feet from the surface of the soil. Analysis and Report—No. 1.—The soil has all the appearance of a light, sandyloam. It contains a considerable amount of gravel and small pebbles, as well as ofundecomposed root fibre. Tested with litmus paper, it gives a strong acid preparation, the fine earth (which in the air-dried condition is of a greyish-redcolour) was submitted to analysis. Nos. 2 and 8 are light grey in colour. They
. Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada 1901 . , since September 26, 1899. No. 3 is from the hard-pan, taken from a depth of 2 feet in the hard-pan, or 5feet from the surface of the soil. Analysis and Report—No. 1.—The soil has all the appearance of a light, sandyloam. It contains a considerable amount of gravel and small pebbles, as well as ofundecomposed root fibre. Tested with litmus paper, it gives a strong acid preparation, the fine earth (which in the air-dried condition is of a greyish-redcolour) was submitted to analysis. Nos. 2 and 8 are light grey in colour. They consist of firmly-cemented masses,chiefly of sand, with pebbles intermixed. To the eye there is no indication in eitherof them of humus, and they have the appearance of being exceedingly poor andrefractory. Analysis of Soils (water-free), -Municipality of Burnaby, , 1900. Soil. y 1 Surface 2 Hardpan, 2 feet from .... 3 Hardpan, 5 feet from surface !)003 60 _ 08= =S i 5 a Z -,- 98 LI660*36 8214 11 560-70 11-220-36 ~. Available. 1 260 L20 l30 L2L-180 150 1:10 090650 16 0130 08 1 05 100 • 00 ? 028 No 1.—Surface soil. The chief constituents to consider are potash, phosphoricacid, and nitrogen and lime. Our previous work on Canadian soils would show thatgood examples from uncultivated areas will, as a rule, contain from 25 to 50 percent potash, from 15 per cent to 25 per cent phosphoric acid, from 15 per cent to2 per cent nitrogen, and from 5 per cent upwards of lime. Many of our richest REPORT OF THE CHEMIST. 149 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 soils have given numbers far larger, but these may fairly represent the limits exhibitedby soils of good, medium quality. The amounts of potash, phosphoric acid and limedesignated in the table as available are those obtained by digesting the soil with a oneper cent solution of citric acid in the cold. English results seem to justify theassumption that less than *01 per cent of phosphoric acid, so obtained, indicates thesoils
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