No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 621 



the callle, and broiiiiue for the iiuiuufivctoi'ies; with poat as one of 

 the ('ominj? articles of fuel for the farmer — this report is closed to 

 prevent undue encroachment upon the very valuable time of the 

 Boai:d. 



A Member: You spoke of the sand being a good thing for filtra 

 tion. Will it take snlpliur out of water? 



COL. DEMMING: Yes, sir. 



A Mcuiber: Can you tell us hbw to distinguish salt-rock from 

 other rock, and can you tell in what way to bore for it? 



COL. DEMMING : In the counties I have named, Pocono sand is 

 conspicuous, and that is the producing salt-rock for .Pennsylvania. 

 In Michigan it is the Marshall sandstone. I find by very carefully 

 boring for the Marshall sandstone and Pocono sandstone, until 

 you reach the crevices, you are likely to find the brine you are seek- 

 ing and find it in very large quantities. 



The CHAIRMAN: "Economy in Feeding the Farmer's Family," by 

 Mr. Miller, of Friedens, Pa. 



The paper read by Mr. Miller is as follows: 



ECONOMY IN FEEDING THE FARMER'S FAMILY. 



BV Jacob S. Miller, Friedeiisi. Pa. 



The Man of Nazareth taxed the very powers of heaven to provide a 

 single meal for a few thousand very ordinary people. They might 

 have gone in search of food, and at the worst,- they would only have 

 been weary for a short time, a loss of perhaps a few hours, a single 

 nights rest would have set all right, but Jesus met their present 

 needs and sent them back to their homes or their toil with every 

 faculty at its best. Then He said. ''Gather up the fragments that 

 remain that nothing be lost." 



Economy is the Divine idea or life; it is also the Divine practice. 

 Waste, if not a human idea, is certainly the human practice, and it is 

 so much the worse, so much the more hopeless because we don't 

 know it. It is economy to know what to feed, how much, and when ; 

 these three adjuncts are very important ones. The farmer must 

 study in order to know what to feed for the health of his family; 

 it is not the products of the farm that have been harvested for a 

 Jong time, but fresh from the garden, orchard or field. He may be 



