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Show Digging a Ditch In a Flash Thing move quickly nowadays. The vlllngo of yesterday is tomorrow's metropolis Speed Is a rcifilslfc. nnd newer methods that smack of rapidity rapidi-ty and labor and money waving arc In demand, Ottches that once consumed tunny days of hand or machlnu labor arc now being blasted out In almost the twinkling twin-kling of uu eye. lly degrees man W learning to ndopt somo of nature's simple, sim-ple, but mighty forces. And the gullies gul-lies and vullcjs that old Mother Earth lias eientcd by her natural upheinnN and eruption nrc being duplicated In a smaller way by somu of tho more progressive nnd up to Uute farmers. UlKglug ditches with dynamite Is simply n newer und more improved method of trench building. The method meth-od employed In wet work I simply to punch holes from eighteen to twenty-four twenty-four Inches deep along tho lino dcilred to ditch and then load each holtMvltli charge of BO per cent straight 'dn'a'-' mite. Long stretches of ditch can be londed nnd fired nt ono tlmo. Ono cap placed mi a cartridge of dynamite In the mid-llo mid-llo hole of the line of charged hole and tired will do the work. A Mingle row of holes can usunlly be Icpcuded upon to exinvate n ditch from M'Wii to nine feet wide and about thirty thir-ty to forty Inches deep Where larger ditches are required the holes can bo made deeper and loaded heavier, or two or more lines of hole, spaced from tlueo to four feet apart, can be used. i Incidentally the hole can bo mndc In the roughest kind of swamp or In Hood muck beds, where other methods ot ditching are practically Impossible. When the soil Is dry or the weather Is too cold to use the propagated method meth-od of blasting described above low freezing farm or stumping powder Is used In boles spread farther npnrt, often In large ditches as far as four or the feet. In this case each holo must bo primed with nu electric cup, as tho explosive shock will not propa-gnto propa-gnto In dry ground The cheapest lineal foot of small ditch Is obtained by uvlng the electric tiring method nnd farm or stumplug 1 powder. UoadlnB Tht Ditch. BLASTING DITCHES THROUGH SV.'AMP. V i |