Gunnison Gazette | 1910-12-23 | Page 1 | Tilling Soil with Dynamite

TILLING SOIL WITH DYNAMITE Odd Way by Which the Explosive Is Made to Take the Place ot the Plow. Probably' no stranger use for dynamite dy-namite has ever been devised than its substitution in place of the plow for the tilling of clay land. , It is being put to such a use on a considerable consid-erable experimental scale in Kansas and by a planter iof Spartansburg, S. C, and a picture in Popular Mechanics Me-chanics shows how it was done. The cartridges were planted three foet ap'art, in rows, and at a depth of four feet. . The holes were made by driving crowbars to the desired depth. The dynamite was exploded by a line of men, provided with red-hot red-hot irons. The line went rapidly down the field, the explosions following follow-ing the men in a steady roar that was deafening. The explosions threw clouds of soil 30 feet into the air and covered the men from head to foot with dust and. dirt