This paper deals with the influence of soil clays on the mineralization of rice straw added to soils and the accumulation of the organic matter becoming decomposable through the effect of drying a soil produced during its mineralization process under the three kinds of nutritional conditions, i.e., without nitrogen fertilizer and added with ammonium sulfate(62.3 mg N/100 g soil)and ammonium nitrate(22.8 mg N/100 g soil). Under the condition where the soils and sand were treated without nitrogen fertilizer, all kinds of soil clays used retarded the accumulation of the organic matter becoming decomposable through the drying effect, and it is possible from the behaviours of the mineralization rates during the incubation periods to take the vie...