f gravel occasionally met with, which are clothed with resinous trees. By tillage the soil gradually loses its blackness, partly from the decomposition of the vegetable matter, and partly from the intermix.tare of the inferior clay. Many of the farms have been cropped with wheat for thirty or forty years almost without a
Moncler Jackets lternation or fallowing, and owing to this, and to the ravages of the fly, hj^e for a few years past yielded hut comparatively inadequate returns. They produce, however, good crops of peas and oats, a'nd the cultivation of timothy and clover has of late years been found very successful."Of the soils of St. Hilaire, he writes, " the clays which I saw in this Seignory seem
Moncler Outlet uch like those of St. Charles, but with a smaller admixture of sand. Around the base of the mountain the debris of the decomposing trap, has made a band of gravelly earth well fitted for fruit and for those crops which require a light warm soil. The compact texture of the
Moncler Jackets For Men se very heavy clays, washed by the waters flowing from the hill side, is such as to require thorough sub-soil draining, which has been effected in admirable manner by the proprietor, Major Campbell, to whose kindcourtesy I am much indebted, and whose enlightened efforts are making his farm a model to the district. Thus drained, the clays are found to yield excellent crops of wheat and clover, with peas."The soils of the Seigniory of C
Moncler Jackets Men hambly, Mr. Hunt says, "are principally of a reddish clay, which, when exposed to the air, readily falls down into a mellow granular soil. In the places where I had an opportunity of observing, it is underlaid at the depth of three or four feet by an exceedingly tenacious blue clay which breaks into angular fragments, and resists the action of the weather. The upper clays constitute the wheatbearing soils, and were originally covered with a growth of maple, elm, and birch.
Moncler Quincy,Moncler Jackets Women " Distinguished fromthese by its covering of soft woods, principally pine and tamarack, is a gravelly ridge, of which he speaks, thickly strewn with gneiss and syenite boulders much worn and rounded, which " yields good crops of maize and potatoes, by manuring." The extraordinary fertility of the soil is indicated by the fact that there are fields of
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