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to the females of their species. I would say that toward the latter 

 part of pregnancy it would not be advisable; in the early part, it 

 might not be so objectionable. 



PROF. SHAW: Would you recommend feeding in any consider- 

 able quantity, molasses to young animals that are being grown for 

 breeders? 



DR. FREAR: Not unless the nitrogenous material is well kept up 

 where it has been given — where the ration has been given with that 

 precaution, a great many excellent results are reported with young 

 and growing animals. 



PROF. SHAW: Would you prefer any other kind of food if you had 

 your choice to feed to that kind of an animal, and if so, what would 

 you adopt? 



DR. FREAR: Good pasture grass. 



It was moved and seconded that Dr. Frear's paper be received 

 and placed on file and published in the bulletin. Agreed to. 



The SECRETARY : In the preparation of the program, we had in 

 mind the question of time. One year ago there was a resolution 

 passed that all reports of the Specialists and Standing Committees 

 should be in writing and that fifteen minutes should be occupied in 

 their reading. We will have to be very careful or we will find that 

 we will not get through and we will not have time for questions 

 and discussions. 



The CHAIRMAN: The next number on our program is the re- 

 port of the Mineralogist, Col. H. C. Demming, of Harrisburg, Pa. 



The report of the Mineralogist was read as follows: 



REPORT OF THE MINERALOGIST. 



By Colonel H. C. Demming, Harrisburg, Pa. 



The past year has been a momentous one in the mineralogy of 

 Pennsylvania. More minerals have been mined and sold than ever 

 before in the history of the State. The leading resources have been 

 our coals, oils, natural gas, iron ores, limestones, slates, cement rocks, 

 silicates and clays. We also have mines of asbestos, barite, beauxitic 

 clays, bromine salt, corundum, copper, chromite, emery, flint, fluor- 

 spar, fire-clay, Fuller's earth, galena, garnet, gold, granite, graphite, 

 ganister rock, infusorial earth, kaolinite, melanterite, manganese, 

 malachite, magnesia, mica, moulders' sand, nickel, pyrite, peat, 

 quartz and quartz crystal, sandstone, silver, sepiolite, salt, serpen- 

 tine, shales for brick, strontium ores, umber and zinc. In addition, 

 mineral waters are being produced and sold in unusually large quan- 

 tities 2 including chalybeate, lithia and sulphur waters. 



The asbestoi deposits of southern Lancaster oounty are mined in- 



