Show DYNAMITE HELPS V IN FARMING S CARTH CARTHAGE GE Mo Production Production of fort forty forty- five live bu bushels ot of corn to tho acre wn re nj m V bushels had been en tho the usual crop was thu h. result of an experiment with dynamite V on tile J Jasper sper county poor farm farin last hiM cu- cu culIon a- a son lIon So promIsIng is the a 8 powder company has hils offered to 10 give enough powder to carr on t a five acre acre test with different crops n next ixl sea reason on Corn wheat heat oats and cow cowpe cow pe peas 8 HI bo be grown rown on the tract Several Jasper count county farm farm- e en make will- will make Individual c experiments To John Parker lIp of the farm and foreman of the tho county count experiment expert expert- mont ment operated under under- the u of tho the state agricultural college is du duthe due the credit of the new method of dealing with hardpAn and shooting life into sou soui hard and water tight soils Tho The Jasper county poor farm Is well named It must have teen a count county court I of practical Jokers that set It aside for tor there is s 8 not a poorer piece of ground In Inthe Inthe inthe i the country It is the type of ot soil that thatis is called poor white and white trash besides a few tew unprintable pameR b by the themen themen themen men who have ha tried to grow crops crops on on it a fl flat t farm probably of ot shale formation V with Uh i a hard pan und under r it like e a rub J blanket V V I 1 was passing a neighbors house one oneda da day saM s MI Mr Parker and I aw w him draining a n pond by boring a hole in the tho bottom of or It H and putting In a stick sUck of ot dynamite It ga gave gae e me the Idea for I told myself that I had a pond right light Jn In the middle of or tie field where I was going to plant corn and I set Iset to ork work to drain It 11 S To do this lie he bought V an od V d fashioned inch and a half halt auger augel had the tho shaft made longer l' l by welding weldIn on a piece of at steel ob oh obtained tamed some dynamite caps and fuse and went vent to work The Thc first hole bole was made four feet deep the one stick lUck of 01 dynamite was wa put in it an and the dirt tamped around the fuse fUS with a broomstick V When Vlen the dynamite exploded It made a a. aV V raised spot like a giant potato hill hili thirty feet feeL across but did ld not even blow the fuse or make an any holes on top of the ground The tape line showed the ground V cracked for tor fifteen feet feel from the holes c The rest of an acre was treated in this V way aJ plowed and planted im corn Tho The result was very ery satisfactory That particular particular par par- acre was the tho lowest part of the field too field too low to drain All through a a. wet et spring that acre of or ground was as os dr dry as the rest Later Latea in tn the summer during A drought it stayed greener than the rest of the field showing that tho the water ater Wd was stored belo below and was drawn rawn up by attraction to feed red the corn When hen the corn orn was husked out the acre T which previously loush had nad yielded d only fi e bushels yielded forty fort bushels bushEs I Digging that Mr Parker has hag done on the farm tann convinces con him hini that the soil is exactly the tho kind to respond to the treat treat- meet ment nt The top soil soli Is only about a n. foot ol deep then com comes s a A. foot toot and a half halt of or hardpan as tough ns as is usually found and then a la layer er of or gravel ra cl and clay that lets lots the water down n through The breaking un of or the hardpan was as a lust just what was wal needed said Mr Parker It let the water down and gave aVe th tho soil soU air to correct its Ita sourness and held the water belo below at a time when l It was as needed Th Tho result was entirely satisfactory The blasting required red only a 1111 hay flay to Lode do no the work and 2 worth of supplies to put the hoes hoc thirty rc feet t apart A total ex pense pens of about 3 ma made e the difference be between between between be- be tween a good crop and no flO crop nt at all The experiment came to general notice when hen V ten prize cars of ot corn were 1 exhibited at tho the count county corn show bearing bear bear- lag inK the label grown gron on dynamited hardpan hard- hard I pan |