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Show i . Stirring the Soil with Dynamite for Bigger Crops I g i ARMING with dynamite Is not a new Invention. It M h was discovered ten years or more ago In Call- 1 it fornla by an indolent miuer-turncd-farmcr, who m found that it saved immouso labor, and did not do any SW damage, to blow out tree stumps with cartridges. ( - in England, however, dynamite is being used more 3$ successfully for deep tillage than Is possible by other ffl means i&Nw On Sir John Cockburn'3 farm at Ilarrlctsham. Hug- x ,-0 land, lu a baro hour two men "cultivated" a rod of land, filg prepared the ground for planting throo fruit trees, cieaer d awjy U.Q tongh Ql(1 u tr0CH ad two tougher onk roots which cumbered tho ground. Ihe last three operations, it was calculated by the farmers, who catno to wonder and learn, would have taken a full three days at tho rato men work in Kent. Here they were done in uu hour at a total coBt of a little Tnnrn.than a. dollar, The first operation could not have been dono at all by manual labor alouo. Tho two men might have dug the land in two hours, or thoy might have ploughed it, but that iB merely scratching the top to what, was actually doue. Sir John wanted to open the subsoil so that the .deep roots of the corn would find an easy passage among fissured and loosened soil Instead of having to fight every inch through stiff loam. The method was oasy. Jock drove a hole 3 foot 6 Inches deep with ii crowbar, and extracted the bar with a cunning lever. Then Couzcns, who handled han-dled cheddltc and gelignite with the cc-rtainty of experience, dropped In a -i ounce cartridge of the former explosive with a detonator and a fuse attached. Nineteen of these mines wore laid, each 10 feet from tho other. Tho soil where each chtfrge went off lifted a little, and that was all. But when Jock got a spado and examined what had happened v;o found a hole 4 Toet kek thii.iiri'acc. amL alL tlia. crcmnd. jnnnd It, .both downward aim across, fissured and broken open for ths young roots. Tho lurf above was undisturbed, but all the subsoil was tilled at a cost of less thnn $35 to tho acre; and, according to a Canadian estimate, moro than a double weight crop socurod Noxt the men made holes for fruit trees at a cost of 20 cents each, which would havo cost 30 cents with muscle and spade. The charge in this case two chod-dlte chod-dlte cartridges was placed 2 Vifcet below tho surface The turf was lifted and the soil bolow and all around gavo easy passage for the young trccB roots. Next two trees and two oak stumps were extracted, but this timo gelignite, which ia moro violent and less expensive, was used. A hole was driven with the crow-bar crow-bar under tho root, and In ibo case of the larger trees a small charge was fired first. In'.j tho hole it made two pounds of gelignite wero packed. When this was fired with a prlmor tho two hundred spectators bar- ing discreetly retired tho stump vanishod. In grubbing out old wood dynamite will do a month' jroiKJn. fUjdtejr at j2S .than, a. tbrLtlie cost, |