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Show DYNAMITING DRY FARM SOILS 6ome Tremendous Yields Have Been Obtained my Ung This Method Instead of Plowing. Some have used this method for crop Instead of plowing and some tremendous tre-mendous yields have been obtained 00 small plata; but we have bad no chance of comparing the cost with the results on a large acreage, says the Hanch and Hanger. Dynamiting boles for trees, however. Is becoming common com-mon and the expense Is half a stick of dynamite, one cap and about two feet of fuse for each tree. A bole Is bored with the soil auger about two feet or 30 Inches where the tree Is to go; the half stick of dynamite dyna-mite Is Inserted with cap and fuse attached at-tached and then the dirt is replaced In the bole around the tree, tamping with a stick as It Is Oiled In. After the explosion two or three swings of the shovel will clear the bole ready to set the tree. The subsoil sub-soil will be found shattered to aoms extent in the neighborhood of the bole and this Is supposed to be beneficial In allowing the roots to penetrate a hard pan. Until some one plants some trees In dynamited holes and some others In ordinary holes alongside of tbem. It will be Impossible to come to any definite defi-nite conclusion as to the advantage. If any, derived from dynamiting. We know that deep plowing Is the best way out In dry farming; for the same reason dynamiting ought to be good. We also know from our own experience ex-perience In the dry farm orchard that the roots will go through any soil hard-pan, hard-pan, provided it Is moist and It Is si-1 wsys moist In the well cultivated orchard or-chard where the trees are not too close together. |