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Excerpt from A Study of the Agricultural Soils of the Cape Colony The investigations into the nature and composition, from an agricul tural point of View, of the soils of the Cape Colony, suggested and initiated by the writer and carried on in the Government Analytical Laboratory under his direction, constitute the only work of the character ever under taken in this country. Previously to their commencement a few isolated analyses of Colonial soils had been made, some by Professor Hahn - amongst which are those quoted on page l24 - and some by the writer himself, but these were scanty and disconnected. Never before had any systematic investi gational work of the kind here recorded been attempted. Even now, having regard to the Colony's vast extent, the number of soils examined is all too small, but the work has now reached a stage from which it is well to pause and look back before proceeding further. The results hitherto obtained are therefore collated here in the hope that the utility of the work may thus be established and a desire created for its continuance and extension. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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