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diff --git a/39869.txt b/39869.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9902106 --- /dev/null +++ b/39869.txt @@ -0,0 +1,850 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Farming with Dynamite, by +E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co. + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +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] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FARMING WITH DYNAMITE *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Erica Pfister-Altschul, and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + _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. 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