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he could greatly increase his yield of honey by sowing his waste 

 land to honey bearing plants. Any one within reach of a few 

 acres of honey bearing plants by an investment of a few dollars in a 

 colony of bees can not only make a handsome profit on his investment, 

 but may find an increasing interest and sometimes to the extent that 

 for the time being he will forget all his other troubles. 



KEPOKT OF MINERALOGIST 



By BAIRD HALBERSTADT, Pottsville, Pa. 



While twenty-nine (29) states of the Union are producing coal 

 on a commercial scale and the production of all kinds of coal in 

 the United States execeds that of any other nation in the world, it 

 should be particularly gratifying to the citizens of Pennsylvania 

 to know that our own Commonwealth not only mines and ships more 

 coal by far than any other state, but that it possesses a larger quan- 

 tity of high grade coal than any other state. Other states may have 

 greater areas underlaid by Coal Measures, but not one can compare 

 with Pennsylvania when the grade and value of its coal deposits are 

 considered. 



The State is made up of sixty-seven (67) counties, and of this num- 

 ber, forty-three (43) are either in whole or in part underlaid by 

 the Coal Measure rocks. Of the forty-three (43) counties so en- 

 dowed, thirty-two (32) contain coal of the Bituminous and Semi 

 Bituminous variety, the other eleven (11) produce, with the single 

 exception of Lebanon, high grade Anthracite and Semi-Anthracite 

 coals. Beaver and Butler counties, in addition to true bituminous 

 coals, produce a good grade of Cannel coal. The latest statistics 

 available show, that in 1909 the production of coal in Pennsylvania 

 reached the enormous total of 210,429,528 net tons ; that its tonnage 

 exceeded that of any nation in the world save Great Britain. In the 

 production of this enormous tonnage, there were empolyed 357,116 

 persons. 



The ten (10) counties from which the production of Anthracite 

 coal was mined were Carbon, Columbia, Dauphin, Lackawanna, 

 Luzerne, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna and 

 Wayne. 



The counties producing the Bituminous tonnage were Allegheny, 

 Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Butler, Cambria, Cam- 

 eron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Fayette, Greene, Hunt- 

 ingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lycoming, McKean, Mercer, 

 Somerset, Tioga, Washington and Westmoreland. Although Leb- 

 anon county in the Anthracite district and Crawford, P"'orest, Potter, 

 Venango and Warren in the Bituminous district are in part under- 

 laid by Coal Measures, no coal is mined from these on a commercial 

 scale, although it is quite likely, that for local and home consumption, 

 coal was mined in all of these counties. 



In 1890, when in charge of the collection of the coal statistics 

 of Pennsylvania for the Eleventh Census of the United States, I made 



