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Show i Getting the Dollar From Under the Stump How Up to Date Farmers Are Easily and Economically Realizing on Land Hitherto Impossible of Cultivation. ABOUT 400,000,000 acrcB of land f included in farms throughout X"jL tuo United States aro unimproved. unim-proved. Figuring that each aero could bo mado to produce at least $23 worth of produco per year, there is approximately $10,000,000,000 production pro-duction being lost annually. Quito a tidy figure. And when wo tako Into consideration that in many cases it requires re-quires only tho removal of sundry stumps and boulders to mako this land profitable, It certainly looks as though something might bo dono to save the wnste. "Stumping with dynamlto" is both an economical, quick and labor saving method ns well as ono that Is growing lu popularity dally. '1'ln. ni.tln- Invylved In tho blasting . "I ii routine a quantity of I'M -in Ii a manner that when exploded lie expanding gases will lift tho Btump out of tho ground. To secure se-cure best results tho cbargo should he placed 1ft the soil well under the base of the stump at the point wbero the resistance offered to tho forco of tie explosion will bo equal on all sides Where the soil is of a heavy clay or plastic naturo a slow acting powder is preferable, such as farm powder or stumping powder. Wbero tho earth is sandy or iooso nnd is apt to permit the easy escape of gases a fast explosive, explo-sive, such as 40 to 00 per cent dynnmlto dynn-mlto should bo used. The condition of the soil with respect to moisture also has a great influence upon the amount of work that a certain quantity of powder pow-der will do. After heavy rains when the soil is saturated to the base of the stump and the subsoil Is Just damp is n most fuvorable condition. No set rules as to tho amount of powder necessary to blast a certain kind or size of stump can bo given, since different conditions govern all ' cases. Two stumps of the same size, kind and ago of cut. when one Is grown on well drulncd soil where tho roots must penetrate n grcat'depth for water and the other Is grown n soil where there Is always water nenr the surface, will demnnd different treatment for extraction. The older stumps, especially especial-ly If from timber free from resin, re-qulro re-qulro less powder. The exact amount necessary for set conditions can, however, how-ever, be readily determined with a little lit-tle experimenting. Few tools nnd supplies are required. A one and one-half Inch wood auger with a shank about four and one-half feet long, n medium sized crowbar, a round pointed shovel and a wooden tamping stick, together with tho powder, pow-der, fuse nnd caps, will serve to fill the bill. j S AH UhPROFITABLE'TUMPCOVEREP FIELPy nTJ wav VJEN MQNTO5ATTER i $800 WORTH OF CELERY PER ACgf ami Almighty gavo Evo to Adam with tho pledge that sho would bo hla helpmeet and with this order of companionship, com-panionship, civilization has towered to its greatest heights. In this relationship, rela-tionship, Qod has blessed woman and man has honored her and after four thousnnd years of progress, sho now proposes to provoko Qod to decoy mnn by asking for suffrage, thoreby by amending an agreement to which sho was not a party Woman, remember that tho Israelito scorned a dlvlno covenant, and as n result wondered forty years in tho wilderness without God. Llkowlso man should remember that It Is a dangerous thing to debaso woman by law. Romo tried loworlng woman's standard and an outraged civilization toro tho clothes off tho bocks of tho human raco and turned thorn out to roam In the world naked and unashamed. |
