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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Farming with Dynamite, by 
+E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co.
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+Title: Farming with Dynamite
+       A Few Hints to Farmers
+
+Author: E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co.
+
+Release Date: May 31, 2012 [EBook #39869]
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+
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/cover.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div class="center mb mt">
+  <h1><img src="images/title.png" alt="Farming With Dynamite" /></h1>
+</div>
+
+<table summary="">
+  <tr>
+    <td>
+      <div class="header"><span class="bold black">SAVES</span></div>
+      <div class="list">MONEY<br />
+                        TIME<br />
+                        LABOR</div>
+    </td>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+    <td>
+      <div class="header"><span class="bold black">REMOVES</span></div>
+      <div class="list">STUMPS<br />
+                        BOULDERS<br />
+                        HARD-PAN</div>
+    </td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+    <td>
+      <div class="header"><span class="bold black">ENSURES</span></div>
+      <div class="list">NEW, RICH SOIL<br />
+                        INCREASED ACREAGE<br />
+                        EASY PLOWING<br />
+                        BIGGER YIELDS</div>
+    </td>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<div class="center mb mt">
+  <img src="images/du_pont.png" alt="DU PONT" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co.</span></p>
+
+<p class="center"><small>
+<span class="smcap">ESTABLISHED 1802</span>
+&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; WILMINGTON, DEL.</small></p>
+
+<div class="bordered">
+  COPYRIGHTED<br />
+  1910<br />
+  <small>BY</small><br />
+  <span class="smcap">E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co.</span><br />
+  <span class="smcap">Wilmington, Del.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><small>PRINTED BY</small><br />
+<span class="smcap">The Lord Baltimore Press<br />
+Baltimore, Md.</span></p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[pg 3]</a></span></p>
+<div class="center mb mt">
+  <img src="images/decoration_p04.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center mb mt">
+  <img src="images/du_pont_bw.png" alt="DU PONT" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center mb mt">
+  <h2><img src="images/header_p04.png" alt="What Is Dynamite?" /></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p><img src="images/dropcap_s.png" alt="S" />ome farmers have a wrong idea about dynamite.</p>
+
+<p>They know it is a powerful explosive, and believe it
+is dangerous to handle.</p>
+
+<p>Dynamite <i>is</i> very powerful, much more so than gunpowder,
+but is actually safer to handle.</p>
+
+<p>After more than a hundred years' experience in making and
+using explosives, we can truthfully state that by following simple
+directions with ordinary care, anyone can use our "Red Cross"
+Dynamite without harm.</p>
+
+<p>The purpose of this booklet is to tell you the wonderful value
+of the use of "Red Cross" Dynamite on the farm.</p>
+
+<p>If it interests you, as it surely will, and if you are progressive
+and ambitious, write for a copy of our "Handbook of Explosives
+for Farmers, Planters and Ranchers," which will be sent free of
+charge and which tells just how to use "Red Cross" Dynamite
+safely and easily, and make it the greatest aid to profitable farming.</p>
+
+<p>We will be glad to correspond with you about any special
+requirements of your farm, or give you any information you want.
+Write our nearest office (see last page) and your letter will receive
+prompt, personal attention.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[pg 4]</a></span></p>
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>Chief Uses of Dynamite on the Farm.</h4>
+
+<p>As farmers all over the country begin to understand the value
+of "Red Cross" Dynamite in their work, they are constantly reporting
+new uses for this powerful assistant.</p>
+
+<p>The chief uses are mentioned below and are explained in detail
+further on. Complete instructions are furnished in the "Handbook
+of Explosives for Farmers, Planters and Ranchers."</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <li class="bold">Clearing Land of Stumps, Trees and Boulders,</li>
+  <li class="bold">Breaking up Hard-Pan, Shale, or Clay Subsoils,</li>
+  <li class="bold">Plowing,</li>
+  <li class="bold">Planting and Cultivating Orchards,</li>
+  <li class="bold">Digging Ditches, Post Holes, Wells and Reservoirs,</li>
+  <li class="bold">Road-Making and Grading,</li>
+  <li class="bold">Excavating Cellars and Foundation Trenches,</li>
+  <li class="bold">Regenerating Old, Worn-out Farms.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>Clearing Land of Stumps, Boulders and Trees.</h4>
+
+<p>It is needless to tell you the advantages of clearing land.</p>
+
+<p>The stump covered site of a former piece of woods, is, as you
+know, new, rich soil that needs no fertilizer.</p>
+
+<p>You also know that pulling stumps with a machine is the hardest
+kind of work&mdash;liable to injure seriously your horses, and certain to
+require a lot of work to get rid of the stump after pulling.</p>
+
+<p>Then too, it leaves the field full of holes, that must be filled;
+and plowing the hard packed soil around old roots is no joke.</p>
+
+<p>If instead of pulling the stumps, you burn them out, the intense
+heat required destroys the chief fertile elements of the soil all around
+the fire. After all your hard work you will leave a burned field
+instead of new, fertile soil.</p>
+
+<p>You can dynamite all those stumps for about one-third the cost
+of pulling and chopping them up.</p>
+
+<p>The blast splits up the stump into firewood, removes all the dirt,
+breaks all the main roots, and loosens the soil for yards around.</p>
+
+<p>You can blast fifty stumps in the time it would take to pull and
+chop up one or two.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[pg 5]</a></span>
+One man can do all the work, if necessary.</p>
+
+<p>After the stumps are all blasted out, you will have a new, rich
+field, and easy to cultivate, requiring no fertilizer to yield bumper crops.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to remove a whole tree, "Red Cross" Dynamite
+will lift it bodily out of the ground, and it will usually fall with the
+wind. When this is done, <i>there is no stump left to remove</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Boulders, which you are now obliged to plow around, can be
+broken up into easily handled blocks by a single blast.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>What it Costs to Blast Out Stumps.</h4>
+
+<p>At the latest "Farming with Dynamite" demonstration, held
+under the auspices of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, at Ivor, Va.,
+on August 11, 1910, one and one-half acres, containing forty-six
+stumps were cleared in one day, at an expense of $18.00, including
+labor, or an average of 39 cents per stump.</p>
+
+<p>Records kept by the Long Island Railroad, covering operations
+on their Experimental Farm, showed that, including the wages of the
+men who did the work, the cost of blasting out stumps averaged about
+16 cents per stump.</p>
+
+<p>Records kept of the cost of this work in different sections of the
+country show as follows:</p>
+
+<table summary="Cost of removing various kinds of stumps">
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdc">Locality and Kind of Stump.</td>
+    <td class="tdc">Average<br />Diameter.</td>
+    <td class="tdc">Average Cost<br />Per Stump.</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><b>Southern</b>&mdash;</td>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td class="indent">Pine Stumps</td>
+    <td>29 inches</td>
+    <td>$0.30</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><b>Pennsylvania</b>&mdash;</td>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td class="indent">Apple, Ash and Chestnut</td>
+    <td>34-&frac12; inches</td>
+    <td><span class="hidden">$0</span>.56</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><b>Michigan</b>&mdash;</td>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td class="indent">White Pine, Maple and Birch</td>
+    <td>32 inches</td>
+    <td><span class="hidden">$0</span>.47</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><b>Minnesota</b>&mdash;</td>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td class="indent">Birch, Ash, Spruce and Pine</td>
+    <td>20 inches</td>
+    <td><span class="hidden">$0</span>.16</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><b>Illinois</b>&mdash;</td>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td class="indent">Oak, Walnut and Gum</td>
+    <td>30 inches</td>
+    <td><span class="hidden">$0</span>.53</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><b>Western</b>&mdash;</td>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td class="indent">Fir, Pine and Cedar</td>
+    <td>50 inches</td>
+    <td><span class="hidden">$</span>1.13</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td class="indent">Redwood</td>
+    <td>8 feet and over</td>
+    <td><span class="hidden">$</span>2.00 and over</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Records kept by Prof. A. J. McGuire, Superintendent Experimental
+Farm of the University of Minnesota, show even lower costs.</p>
+
+<div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[pg 6]</a></span></div>
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>Breaking Up Hard-Pan, Shale or Clay Soils.</h4>
+
+<p>This is probably the most important use of "Red Cross"
+Dynamite.</p>
+
+<p>It is possible, although difficult and expensive, to clear land of
+stumps and boulders in other ways, but it is not possible to break up
+hard-pan, or clay subsoils, without the use of "Red Cross" Dynamite.</p>
+
+<p>Land that has a waterproof subsoil is practically worthless, as it
+holds the surface water in such quantities on level ground, that the
+roots of trees and plants are rotted away; on hilly ground, it allows
+the surface water to run off, thus preventing the storage of moisture,
+with the result that vegetation dies quickly in hot weather. Such land
+can be rendered fertile at once by blasting with "Red Cross"
+Dynamite. The subsoil is completely broken up and the dry, dead
+top soil converted into a rich loam for less than the amount of the
+taxes for a year or two.</p>
+
+<p>The following extract from the Topeka, Kansas, "Mail and
+Breeze" proves the wonderful results of this use of dynamite:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"A few years ago M. T. Williams bought a quarter section of
+land near Medicine Lodge in Barber County, and, conceiving the
+same idea that Ex-Governor Crawford and others have, used dynamite
+in dealing with a hard subsoil. The land was overgrown with
+sunflowers and cockleburs and would have been considered dear at
+$10 per acre. It was underlaid with a hard subsoil that was almost
+impervious to water. Mr. Williams' idea was to loosen this subsoil
+with dynamite. He bored holes in the earth some 3 feet deep and
+about 40 feet apart, and in each hole placed a part of a stick of
+dynamite. The explosion of the dynamite loosened the hard subsoil,
+and made a reservoir for the rains, which had formerly run off the
+land nearly as fast as they fell. On this quarter there is now 100
+acres of, perhaps, as fine alfalfa as can be found in the state. Mr.
+Williams has refused $15,000 for the quarter and gathers a net
+income from his alfalfa of from $30 to $35 per acre every year.</p>
+
+<p>"Last season Mr. Williams proposed to the ladies of the Baptist
+church that he would give them a load of hay, provided they would
+come out to the place, shock the hay, load it on wagons and haul it to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[pg 7]</a></span>
+town. They took him at his word and shocked and hauled to town
+two tons which sold for $16. When the second crop was ready the
+ladies came again, and 'touched' Mr. Williams for a little more than
+two tons which sold as well as the first load."</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>Plowing With Dynamite.</h4>
+
+<p>Ordinarily plowing merely turns over the same old soil year after
+year, and constant decrease in crops is only prevented by rotation or
+expensive fertilizing.</p>
+
+<p>With "Red Cross" Dynamite you can break up the ground all
+over the field to a depth of two or three feet, for less than the cost of
+adequate fertilizing, and with better results. Fertilizing only improves
+the top soil. Dynamiting renders available all the moisture and
+elements of growth throughout the entire depth of the blast.</p>
+
+<p>In an article by J. H. Caldwell, of Spartanburg, S. C., in the
+September, 1910, Technical World Magazine, he states that before
+the ground was broken up with dynamite, he planted his corn with
+stalks 18 inches apart in rows 4 feet apart and raised 90 bushels to
+the acre. After the ground was blasted, it was able to nourish stalks
+6 inches apart in rows the same distance apart, and to produce
+over 250 bushels to the acre. This means an increase of about <i>160
+bushels to the acre</i>, every year, for an original expense of $40
+an acre for labor and explosives.</p>
+
+<p>F. G. Moughon, of Walton County, Georgia, reports that he
+has been raising crops of watermelons, weighing from 50 to 60
+pounds each, on land blasted by exploding charges of about 3 ounces
+of dynamite in holes 2-&frac12; to 3 feet deep, spaced 8 to 10 feet apart.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>Planting and Cultivating Orchards.</h4>
+
+<p>In the orchard "Red Cross" Dynamite not only saves much
+labor and time in planting the trees, but ensures the best growth and
+large yields.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[pg 8]</a></span>
+A man will spend an hour digging a tree hole that dynamite will
+excavate in an instant. The spaded hole will be hard all the way
+down, making it difficult for the transplanted roots to take hold. This
+is one of the chief reasons why transplanted trees so often die.</p>
+
+<p>"Red Cross" Dynamite not only excavates the required hole,
+but also loosens the ground for yards around, killing all grubs, and
+forming a spongy reservoir for moisture. That is why trees planted in
+dynamited holes live and thrive.</p>
+
+<p>A whole row of tree holes can be excavated in one instant when
+charged with "Red Cross" Dynamite.</p>
+
+<p>Old trees are benefited by exploding small charges under them,
+or between the rows. This keeps the ground loose, and free from
+grubs.</p>
+
+<p>A well known fruit grower reports that he planted peach trees
+some years ago to determine whether anything was to be gained by
+using dynamite. A number of trees were planted in holes by detonating
+a charge of explosives to make the holes, and others were
+planted in holes of the regulation size, dug by hand. Three years
+later the trees planted in the blasted holes were strong and healthy,
+each producing between five and six bushels of very fine peaches.
+The other trees planted on the same ground without blasting, bore no
+peaches, both fruit and leaves having shriveled up and dropped off
+during the dry season.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>Digging Ditches, Post Holes, Wells and Reservoirs.</h4>
+
+<p>Excavating of any kind is slow, hard work when done with pick
+and shovel, especially in mixed ground containing large stones, roots,
+streaks of gravel or shale.</p>
+
+<p>Several rods of ditch can be excavated in an instant with dynamite,
+varying the size of each charge according to the nature of the
+ground at that point.</p>
+
+<p>Most of the dirt is thrown out by the blast and the remainder is
+broken up ready for the shovel.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[pg 9]</a></span>
+A Missourian advises us of a ditch he has just blasted through a
+swamp for $100, which he says would have cost him $500 if dug
+in the usual way.</p>
+
+<p>On August 11, 1910, at the demonstration at Ivor, Va., above
+referred to, a ditch 85 feet in length, 3 feet deep and 4-&frac12; feet wide
+at the top, was blasted with dynamite, at a cost not exceeding 10 cents
+per yard, or about $2.75 for the entire work.</p>
+
+<p>"Red Cross" Dynamite is especially useful in excavating wells
+and reservoirs, as it opens up all the springs in nearby ground.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>Road-Making and Grading.</h4>
+
+<p>"Red Cross" Dynamite is a big saver of time and labor in
+making new roads, or leveling grades on old roads. Rock, shale, clay,
+gravel or sand, can all be broken up with ease, simply by varying the
+charge according to the nature of the ground and the depth of
+excavation desired.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>Excavating Cellars and Foundation Trenches.</h4>
+
+<p>This work can be done with "Red Cross" Dynamite in one-tenth
+the time required for hand and team shoveling, and the cost of the
+dynamite is but a fraction of the value of the labor saved.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>Regenerating Old, Worn-Out Farms.</h4>
+
+<p>All over the Eastern and Southern sections of the United States
+are farms and plantations, once rich, fertile and profitable, but now
+either abandoned, or so unproductive as to be almost worthless.</p>
+
+<p>The chief trouble with these farms is that the top soil is
+worked out.</p>
+
+<p>"Red Cross" Dynamite can be used with complete success to
+turn up an entirely fresh, fertile soil, and convert a $10 an acre
+"worked-out farm" into land worth $50 to $100 an acre.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[pg 10]</a></span>
+The cost in dynamite for this conversion would be about $10 to
+$15 an acre according to the nature of the soil.</p>
+
+<p>This matter is worthy of as much consideration on the part of
+farmers, and all others concerned with national resources, as the
+reclamation of desert areas in the West.</p>
+
+<p>Surely it is as important to restore the productiveness of established
+farms in the East, as it is to open up new, fertile fields in the
+West and Southwest.</p>
+
+<p>If any portion of your farm is not productive, it is probable that
+"Red Cross" Dynamite can make it productive.</p>
+
+<p>The leading railroads of the country are taking the greatest
+interest in the increasing use of dynamite on the farm, because they
+know by actual results that it means more and better crops, bigger
+shipments and greater prosperity all along their lines.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. H. B. Fullerton, Director Agricultural Development of the
+Long Island Railroad, is one of the pioneers in this movement, and in
+an article entitled "Reclaiming Waste Land on Long Island," his wife,
+Edith Loring Fullerton, graphically describes the use of dynamite in
+the preparation of waste land for cultivation.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<h4>How Can We Help You?</h4>
+
+<p>For more than a hundred years we have been making and selling
+explosives. We maintain a highly skilled corps of chemists, explosive
+specialists, and field representatives, whose sole duties are to study
+conditions and devise means for handling them.</p>
+
+<p>If there is any soil condition on your farm that we have not
+mentioned, and which you think might be remedied or improved by
+dynamite, please write us all about it. There will be no charge for
+the information we will send you; in fact, we will be much obliged
+to you for giving us the opportunity to study any peculiar condition.</p>
+
+<p>Bear in mind that the age, reputation and high standing of this
+Company are ample assurance that any statements made by us are
+conservative, and based on long and varied experience.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[pg 11]</a></span>
+In any case we want you to write for our "Handbook of Explosives
+for Farmers, Planters and Ranchers," which we send out only
+on request, as it is too valuable to send to anyone not interested
+enough to ask for it. Asking for it puts you under no obligation to
+us except to read it.</p>
+
+<p>We believe that when you have read it you will understand
+how simple, safe and economical the use of "Red Cross" Dynamite
+is, and that you will find many ways to save and make money with
+its aid.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co.</span><br />
+WILMINGTON, DELAWARE<br />
+November, 1910<br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_p12.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[pg 12]</a></span></div>
+
+<p class="center bold">E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER COMPANY</p>
+<p class="center bold">HOME OFFICE: WILMINGTON, DEL.</p>
+<p class="center">ESTABLISHED 1802</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+  <img src="images/decoration_tb.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+<p class="header center"><span class="black">BRANCH OFFICES</span></p>
+
+<ul><li>BOSTON, MASS.
+ <ul><li>BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
+  <ul><li>BUFFALO, N.Y.
+   <ul><li>CHICAGO, ILL.
+    <ul><li>CINCINNATI, O.
+     <ul><li>CITY OF MEXICO
+      <ul><li>DENVER, COLO.
+       <ul><li>DULUTH, MINN.
+        <ul><li>HAZLETON, PA.
+         <ul><li>HOUGHTON, MICH.
+          <ul><li>HUNTINGTON, W. VA.
+           <ul><li>JOPLIN, MO.
+            <ul><li>KANSAS CITY, MO.
+             <ul><li>MEMPHIS, TENN.
+              <ul><li>NASHVILLE, TENN.
+</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
+</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
+</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li>
+<li>NEW ORLEANS, LA.
+ <ul><li>NEW YORK, N.Y.
+  <ul><li>PHILADELPHIA, PA.
+   <ul><li>PITTSBURG, KAS.
+    <ul><li>PITTSBURGH, PA.
+     <ul><li>PORTLAND, ORE.
+      <ul><li>SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
+       <ul><li>SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
+        <ul><li>SCRANTON, PA.
+         <ul><li>SEATTLE, WASH.
+          <ul><li>SHREVEPORT, LA.
+           <ul><li>SPOKANE, WASH.
+            <ul><li>SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
+             <ul><li>ST. LOUIS, MO.
+              <ul><li>TERRE HAUTE, IND.
+</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
+</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
+</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Farming with Dynamite, by 
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+Title: Farming with Dynamite
+       A Few Hints to Farmers
+
+Author: E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co.
+
+Release Date: May 31, 2012 [EBook #39869]
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+    _FARMING
+    with_
+    DYNAMITE
+
+    _A few hints
+    to_
+    FARMERS
+
+    [Illustration: DU PONT]
+
+    ESTABLISHED 1802
+
+
+
+
+Farming With Dynamite
+
+
+    _SAVES_
+        MONEY
+        TIME
+        LABOR
+
+    _REMOVES_
+        STUMPS
+        BOULDERS
+        HARD-PAN
+
+    _ENSURES_
+        NEW, RICH SOIL
+        INCREASED ACREAGE
+        EASY PLOWING
+        BIGGER YIELDS
+
+[Illustration: DU PONT]
+
+E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER CO.
+
+    ESTABLISHED 1802            WILMINGTON, DEL.
+
+
+    COPYRIGHTED
+    1910
+    BY
+    E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER CO.
+
+    WILMINGTON, DEL.
+
+
+    PRINTED BY
+    THE LORD BALTIMORE PRESS
+    BALTIMORE, MD.
+
+
+
+
+WHAT IS DYNAMITE?
+
+
+Some farmers have a wrong idea about dynamite.
+
+They know it is a powerful explosive, and believe it is dangerous to
+handle.
+
+Dynamite _is_ very powerful, much more so than gunpowder, but is
+actually safer to handle.
+
+After more than a hundred years' experience in making and using
+explosives, we can truthfully state that by following simple directions
+with ordinary care, anyone can use our "Red Cross" Dynamite without
+harm.
+
+The purpose of this booklet is to tell you the wonderful value of the
+use of "Red Cross" Dynamite on the farm.
+
+If it interests you, as it surely will, and if you are progressive and
+ambitious, write for a copy of our "Handbook of Explosives for Farmers,
+Planters and Ranchers," which will be sent free of charge and which
+tells just how to use "Red Cross" Dynamite safely and easily, and make
+it the greatest aid to profitable farming.
+
+We will be glad to correspond with you about any special requirements of
+your farm, or give you any information you want. Write our nearest
+office (see last page) and your letter will receive prompt, personal
+attention.
+
+
+Chief Uses of Dynamite on the Farm.
+
+As farmers all over the country begin to understand the value of "Red
+Cross" Dynamite in their work, they are constantly reporting new uses
+for this powerful assistant.
+
+The chief uses are mentioned below and are explained in detail further
+on. Complete instructions are furnished in the "Handbook of Explosives
+for Farmers, Planters and Ranchers."
+
+    =Clearing Land of Stumps, Trees and Boulders,=
+    =Breaking up Hard-Pan, Shale, or Clay Subsoils,=
+    =Plowing,=
+    =Planting and Cultivating Orchards,=
+    =Digging Ditches, Post Holes, Wells and Reservoirs,=
+    =Road-Making and Grading,=
+    =Excavating Cellars and Foundation Trenches,=
+    =Regenerating Old, Worn-out Farms.=
+
+
+Clearing Land of Stumps, Boulders and Trees.
+
+It is needless to tell you the advantages of clearing land.
+
+The stump covered site of a former piece of woods, is, as you know, new,
+rich soil that needs no fertilizer.
+
+You also know that pulling stumps with a machine is the hardest kind of
+work--liable to injure seriously your horses, and certain to require a
+lot of work to get rid of the stump after pulling.
+
+Then too, it leaves the field full of holes, that must be filled; and
+plowing the hard packed soil around old roots is no joke.
+
+If instead of pulling the stumps, you burn them out, the intense heat
+required destroys the chief fertile elements of the soil all around the
+fire. After all your hard work you will leave a burned field instead of
+new, fertile soil.
+
+You can dynamite all those stumps for about one-third the cost of
+pulling and chopping them up.
+
+The blast splits up the stump into firewood, removes all the dirt,
+breaks all the main roots, and loosens the soil for yards around.
+
+You can blast fifty stumps in the time it would take to pull and chop up
+one or two.
+
+One man can do all the work, if necessary.
+
+After the stumps are all blasted out, you will have a new, rich field,
+and easy to cultivate, requiring no fertilizer to yield bumper crops.
+
+If you want to remove a whole tree, "Red Cross" Dynamite will lift it
+bodily out of the ground, and it will usually fall with the wind. When
+this is done, _there is no stump left to remove_.
+
+Boulders, which you are now obliged to plow around, can be broken up
+into easily handled blocks by a single blast.
+
+
+What it Costs to Blast Out Stumps.
+
+At the latest "Farming with Dynamite" demonstration, held under the
+auspices of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, at Ivor, Va., on August
+11, 1910, one and one-half acres, containing forty-six stumps were
+cleared in one day, at an expense of $18.00, including labor, or an
+average of 39 cents per stump.
+
+Records kept by the Long Island Railroad, covering operations on their
+Experimental Farm, showed that, including the wages of the men who did
+the work, the cost of blasting out stumps averaged about 16 cents per
+stump.
+
+Records kept of the cost of this work in different sections of the
+country show as follows:
+
+  Locality and Kind of Stump.          Average       Average Cost
+                                      Diameter.       Per Stump.
+
+  =Southern=--
+    Pine Stumps                      29 inches          $0.30
+
+  =Pennsylvania=--
+    Apple, Ash and Chestnut          34-1/2 inches        .56
+
+  =Michigan=--
+    White Pine, Maple and Birch      32 inches            .47
+
+  =Minnesota=--
+    Birch, Ash, Spruce and Pine      20 inches            .16
+
+  =Illinois=--
+    Oak, Walnut and Gum              30 inches            .53
+
+  =Western=--
+    Fir, Pine and Cedar              50 inches           1.13
+    Redwood                           8 feet and over    2.00 and over
+
+Records kept by Prof. A. J. McGuire, Superintendent Experimental Farm of
+the University of Minnesota, show even lower costs.
+
+
+Breaking Up Hard-Pan, Shale or Clay Soils.
+
+This is probably the most important use of "Red Cross" Dynamite.
+
+It is possible, although difficult and expensive, to clear land of
+stumps and boulders in other ways, but it is not possible to break up
+hard-pan, or clay subsoils, without the use of "Red Cross" Dynamite.
+
+Land that has a waterproof subsoil is practically worthless, as it holds
+the surface water in such quantities on level ground, that the roots of
+trees and plants are rotted away; on hilly ground, it allows the surface
+water to run off, thus preventing the storage of moisture, with the
+result that vegetation dies quickly in hot weather. Such land can be
+rendered fertile at once by blasting with "Red Cross" Dynamite. The
+subsoil is completely broken up and the dry, dead top soil converted
+into a rich loam for less than the amount of the taxes for a year or
+two.
+
+The following extract from the Topeka, Kansas, "Mail and Breeze" proves
+the wonderful results of this use of dynamite:--
+
+"A few years ago M. T. Williams bought a quarter section of land near
+Medicine Lodge in Barber County, and, conceiving the same idea that
+Ex-Governor Crawford and others have, used dynamite in dealing with a
+hard subsoil. The land was overgrown with sunflowers and cockleburs and
+would have been considered dear at $10 per acre. It was underlaid with a
+hard subsoil that was almost impervious to water. Mr. Williams' idea was
+to loosen this subsoil with dynamite. He bored holes in the earth some 3
+feet deep and about 40 feet apart, and in each hole placed a part of a
+stick of dynamite. The explosion of the dynamite loosened the hard
+subsoil, and made a reservoir for the rains, which had formerly run off
+the land nearly as fast as they fell. On this quarter there is now 100
+acres of, perhaps, as fine alfalfa as can be found in the state. Mr.
+Williams has refused $15,000 for the quarter and gathers a net income
+from his alfalfa of from $30 to $35 per acre every year.
+
+"Last season Mr. Williams proposed to the ladies of the Baptist church
+that he would give them a load of hay, provided they would come out to
+the place, shock the hay, load it on wagons and haul it to town. They
+took him at his word and shocked and hauled to town two tons which sold
+for $16. When the second crop was ready the ladies came again, and
+'touched' Mr. Williams for a little more than two tons which sold as
+well as the first load."
+
+
+Plowing With Dynamite.
+
+Ordinarily plowing merely turns over the same old soil year after year,
+and constant decrease in crops is only prevented by rotation or
+expensive fertilizing.
+
+With "Red Cross" Dynamite you can break up the ground all over the field
+to a depth of two or three feet, for less than the cost of adequate
+fertilizing, and with better results. Fertilizing only improves the top
+soil. Dynamiting renders available all the moisture and elements of
+growth throughout the entire depth of the blast.
+
+In an article by J. H. Caldwell, of Spartanburg, S. C., in the
+September, 1910, Technical World Magazine, he states that before the
+ground was broken up with dynamite, he planted his corn with stalks 18
+inches apart in rows 4 feet apart and raised 90 bushels to the acre.
+After the ground was blasted, it was able to nourish stalks 6 inches
+apart in rows the same distance apart, and to produce over 250 bushels
+to the acre. This means an increase of about _160 bushels to the acre_,
+every year, for an original expense of $40 an acre for labor and
+explosives.
+
+F. G. Moughon, of Walton County, Georgia, reports that he has been
+raising crops of watermelons, weighing from 50 to 60 pounds each, on
+land blasted by exploding charges of about 3 ounces of dynamite in holes
+2-1/2 to 3 feet deep, spaced 8 to 10 feet apart.
+
+
+Planting and Cultivating Orchards.
+
+In the orchard "Red Cross" Dynamite not only saves much labor and time
+in planting the trees, but ensures the best growth and large yields.
+
+A man will spend an hour digging a tree hole that dynamite will excavate
+in an instant. The spaded hole will be hard all the way down, making it
+difficult for the transplanted roots to take hold. This is one of the
+chief reasons why transplanted trees so often die.
+
+"Red Cross" Dynamite not only excavates the required hole, but also
+loosens the ground for yards around, killing all grubs, and forming a
+spongy reservoir for moisture. That is why trees planted in dynamited
+holes live and thrive.
+
+A whole row of tree holes can be excavated in one instant when charged
+with "Red Cross" Dynamite.
+
+Old trees are benefited by exploding small charges under them, or
+between the rows. This keeps the ground loose, and free from grubs.
+
+A well known fruit grower reports that he planted peach trees some years
+ago to determine whether anything was to be gained by using dynamite.
+A number of trees were planted in holes by detonating a charge of
+explosives to make the holes, and others were planted in holes of the
+regulation size, dug by hand. Three years later the trees planted in the
+blasted holes were strong and healthy, each producing between five and
+six bushels of very fine peaches. The other trees planted on the same
+ground without blasting, bore no peaches, both fruit and leaves having
+shriveled up and dropped off during the dry season.
+
+
+Digging Ditches, Post Holes, Wells and Reservoirs.
+
+Excavating of any kind is slow, hard work when done with pick and
+shovel, especially in mixed ground containing large stones, roots,
+streaks of gravel or shale.
+
+Several rods of ditch can be excavated in an instant with dynamite,
+varying the size of each charge according to the nature of the ground at
+that point.
+
+Most of the dirt is thrown out by the blast and the remainder is broken
+up ready for the shovel.
+
+A Missourian advises us of a ditch he has just blasted through a swamp
+for $100, which he says would have cost him $500 if dug in the usual
+way.
+
+On August 11, 1910, at the demonstration at Ivor, Va., above referred
+to, a ditch 85 feet in length, 3 feet deep and 4-1/2 feet wide at the
+top, was blasted with dynamite, at a cost not exceeding 10 cents per
+yard, or about $2.75 for the entire work.
+
+"Red Cross" Dynamite is especially useful in excavating wells and
+reservoirs, as it opens up all the springs in nearby ground.
+
+
+Road-Making and Grading.
+
+"Red Cross" Dynamite is a big saver of time and labor in making new
+roads, or leveling grades on old roads. Rock, shale, clay, gravel or
+sand, can all be broken up with ease, simply by varying the charge
+according to the nature of the ground and the depth of excavation
+desired.
+
+
+Excavating Cellars and Foundation Trenches.
+
+This work can be done with "Red Cross" Dynamite in one-tenth the time
+required for hand and team shoveling, and the cost of the dynamite is
+but a fraction of the value of the labor saved.
+
+
+Regenerating Old, Worn-Out Farms.
+
+All over the Eastern and Southern sections of the United States are
+farms and plantations, once rich, fertile and profitable, but now either
+abandoned, or so unproductive as to be almost worthless.
+
+The chief trouble with these farms is that the top soil is worked out.
+
+"Red Cross" Dynamite can be used with complete success to turn up an
+entirely fresh, fertile soil, and convert a $10 an acre "worked-out
+farm" into land worth $50 to $100 an acre.
+
+The cost in dynamite for this conversion would be about $10 to $15 an
+acre according to the nature of the soil.
+
+This matter is worthy of as much consideration on the part of farmers,
+and all others concerned with national resources, as the reclamation of
+desert areas in the West.
+
+Surely it is as important to restore the productiveness of established
+farms in the East, as it is to open up new, fertile fields in the West
+and Southwest.
+
+If any portion of your farm is not productive, it is probable that "Red
+Cross" Dynamite can make it productive.
+
+The leading railroads of the country are taking the greatest interest in
+the increasing use of dynamite on the farm, because they know by actual
+results that it means more and better crops, bigger shipments and
+greater prosperity all along their lines.
+
+Mr. H. B. Fullerton, Director Agricultural Development of the Long
+Island Railroad, is one of the pioneers in this movement, and in an
+article entitled "Reclaiming Waste Land on Long Island," his wife, Edith
+Loring Fullerton, graphically describes the use of dynamite in the
+preparation of waste land for cultivation.
+
+
+How Can We Help You?
+
+For more than a hundred years we have been making and selling
+explosives. We maintain a highly skilled corps of chemists, explosive
+specialists, and field representatives, whose sole duties are to study
+conditions and devise means for handling them.
+
+If there is any soil condition on your farm that we have not mentioned,
+and which you think might be remedied or improved by dynamite, please
+write us all about it. There will be no charge for the information we
+will send you; in fact, we will be much obliged to you for giving us the
+opportunity to study any peculiar condition.
+
+Bear in mind that the age, reputation and high standing of this Company
+are ample assurance that any statements made by us are conservative, and
+based on long and varied experience.
+
+In any case we want you to write for our "Handbook of Explosives for
+Farmers, Planters and Ranchers," which we send out only on request, as
+it is too valuable to send to anyone not interested enough to ask for
+it. Asking for it puts you under no obligation to us except to read it.
+
+We believe that when you have read it you will understand how simple,
+safe and economical the use of "Red Cross" Dynamite is, and that you
+will find many ways to save and make money with its aid.
+
+    E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER CO.
+    WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
+    November, 1910
+
+
+
+
+E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER COMPANY
+
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+
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+
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