Report On the Geological --: Survey of the State of Rhode Island
Report On the Geological --: Survey of the State of Rhode Island
Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880
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Water of absorption, — 2.3 Vegetable matter, 6.0 Insoluble silicates, 83.8 Digitized by Google 142 JOHNSTON. Per-o:ride of ifon and alumina, 5.5^ Salts of lime, 0.2 Magnesia, 0.9 98.7 1.3 loss. 100.0 In Johnston there are some excellent farms situated on: hornblende rock, and a dark blackish soil, mixed with peaty matter. The meadows contain layeirs of peat, and the soil generally is well charged with vegetable matter. A good example of a fertile soil of this class may be seen on the excellent ...farm of Mr. D. Pettis. Soil from hornblende rock mixed with granitic detritus^ Crop, clover, very luxuriant. Mechanical separation by sieves. No. 1. Fragments of hornblende rock and seinite with a few pieces of sticksj=30 grs, 2. Sand, ^ 33 3. Fine loam, 937 1000 Chemical analysis of 100 grams of the jme soil. Water of absorption,, a« 3.3^ Vegetable matter, 9.5 Per-oxide of iron and alumina, 7.9 Salts of Ume, 0.7 Insoluble silicates, 78.6 100.0 This soil evidently resembles a granitic more than a' hornblende rock soil, there being no magnesia in it.
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