Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-30
POINTS
On the Geology Of
Summit County,
And How II Affects
Agriculture.
Scientific Discussion by
Grangers.
An Interesting Program at the
Last Meeting.

met at Bath Town Hall, Thursday,
July 10. The weather was fine, but
the attendance was not up to the aver
age. The program, however, was one
of the best of the year and fully car
ried out.
The committee on summer picnic
reported that it had been decided not
to have Grange picnic this year.
The Geology of Summit County
and It's Effect on Agriculture" by II.
w. Howe, was one of the most inter-
esting and instructive talks or lectures
given in Pomona Grange for some
time. He said in part: The geology
of Summit county is very much like
the geology of all the earth, and it is
a broad field. To begin with, we must
have some sort of measure for com,
parison. Light travels nearly 100000
miles per second and it takes about
three and half years for the light of
the nearest fixed star to come to us.
The age Of the earth may be compar.
ed with the distance of the stars.
Take piece of coal and burn it and
1t will go off in gas, apply enough heat
to rocks and they will become gas,
hence we reason that all the earth was
once gas. I'm this gas or fre-mst
were the elements of all the forms of
matter which were to exist in or upon
the earth in the long progress of its
history" The speaker had numerous
specimens of rocks, showing them in
the order in which they were found.
The first was small hard-head bowl,
der, brought here by the glaciers, with
out layers of any kind and no signs of
any vegetable, or animal remains.
These Oldest rocks were fire-formed
during the long process of cooling and
contracting of the earth. All other
rocks were formed from these fire.
formed rocks, but were formed under
water, on the floor of the sea, and in
layers. Thus down though the ages
of the earth We're the successive layers
OF rock formed, sometimes rising out of
the sea,and again in places subsiding."
Summit county is on the edge of the
coal formation. Conglomerate rock
crops out in several places In the
county. No coal is found below the
conglomerate or sud-carboniferous
because that was formed before the
coal making period. During the Ice
Age, or Glacial Epoch, Summit county
was covered a good many hundreds
of feet with ice During this period
rocks and earth materials were brought
down from the north. The glacial
action ground and mixed these mater
ials, and when the Ice melted and re-
treated, the surface was left much
and better for farming than
1t would have been without the action
of the Ice.
5. j. Baldwin spoke briefly upon the
effect of the glacial action, saying in
part that the soil of northern Summit
county and Northeastern Ohio was
largely of shale origin, hence 1t is not so
strong or naturally so productive as
those soils made up OF limestone for
Limestone gravel Is excellent road
while the gravel found in
Ohio is looser and not
nearly so lasting whom put upon the
'onds. This is one of the reasons why
we have such poor roads on the Wes-
tern Reserve. Material of shale origin
ioes not make good roads.
N'NNN'"' ~ .his. bdiltS htdtiillS,
The Planting OF the Apple Tree"
Singing by Mrs. Cranz and Mrs.
uine.
S. j. Baldwin gave a short review
If the leading current events. First,
'eace in South Africa, and the remark
'ble bargain the Beers We're able to
make for themselves. Second Proc
of peace in the Philippines.
fhird, Cuba, now a republic, takes |
Ter place among the nations of the |
World. Fourth, the Anthracite coal |
trike. Fifth, street car strike in San
francisco Sixth, freight handlers
trike In Chicago, where $4,000, 900
worth of perishable freight spoiled.
seventh, the unusual rainfall for June
nd July. Nearly half the average an
'ual rainfall has fallen in those two
months.
Paper by Dallas Reading; Every
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