Show dynamiting DRY FARM SOILS borne 60 me tremendous yields have been obtained my ung this method instead of plowing some have used this method tor for crops instead of plowing and somo some tro yields have been obtained on small plats but we have bad no chance ot at coin comparing paring tho cost with the results on a large acreage says the ranch and ranger dynamiting holes for or trees however Is becoming common comman and the expense Is halt half a stick of dynamite one cap and about two fe foot at of fuse use for each tree A hole bole la Is bored with tho the moll eoll auger about two feet or 30 20 inches where the tha tree is to go the halt stick of dyna mite la Is inserted with cap and fuse fu no attached and then the dirt Is replaced in the lible around the tree tamping with a stick as it Is filled lil in after the explosion two or three swings of the shovel will clear tho tha hole bole ready to set the tree the subsoil will be found shattered to some boma extent in the neighborhood of the hole hola and this to la supposed to be beneficial in allowing the roots to penetrate a hardpan hard pan until some one plants some tapes trees in dynamited holes and some others la in ordin ordinary aTy holes alongside of them it will be impossible to come to any definite conclusion as to the advantage if any derived from dynamiting wo we know that deep plowing Is the tha best way out in dry farming tor for the samo same reason dynamiting ought to bo be good we also aleo know from our own ex peri per lence ence in the dry farm orchard that the roots will go through any soil hardpan provided it is moist and it Is always moist in the well cultivated orchard where the trens trans are not too clo close be together |