. Improving crop yields by the use of dynamite . ly ap-plied, is desirable. Dynamite is simply concentrated power orcondensed strength. In order to have it work in the correct way,and move in the right direction, it must be properly harnessed andthe bit kept in its mouth, but this is easily done if the directionsgiven in this handbook are followed intelligently. 9 HANDBOOK OF EXPLOSIVES As time passes, farmers will find other ways of saving moneyby using explosives, for the demand for farm products is increasingso rapidly that greater acreage must be put under cultivation, andthe old acres mus
. Improving crop yields by the use of dynamite . ly ap-plied, is desirable. Dynamite is simply concentrated power orcondensed strength. In order to have it work in the correct way,and move in the right direction, it must be properly harnessed andthe bit kept in its mouth, but this is easily done if the directionsgiven in this handbook are followed intelligently. 9 HANDBOOK OF EXPLOSIVES As time passes, farmers will find other ways of saving moneyby using explosives, for the demand for farm products is increasingso rapidly that greater acreage must be put under cultivation, andthe old acres must increase their yield. In order to do this success-fully and to meet competition, every device and arrangement thatreally saves labor and makes for economy, either in the present orthe future, must be adopted. The farmer who fails to realizethis, and still believes that he can get along in the old way, willsoon find himself hopelessly defeated. 10 THE FIRST STAGE CLEARING THE LAND BLASTING OUT STUMPSFELLING TREESSPLITTING LOGSBLASTING BOULDERS. A FUTURE SUBJECT CLEARING THE LAND EVER since the first white man started a permanent settlementin this country, the transformation of forests into farms has been continuous. So great is the total of land clearing opera-tions to-day, and so large is the annual expenditure in this work,that it has become a factor of prime importance in the nationaleconomy, and the necessity for a careful study of all of its phases,to the end of improving the various methods now in practice, is every-where recognized. If, after the passing of the wood-chopper and the sawmill, theland were ready for the plow, there would be no problem to solve;but a great area covered with stumps—thirty, fifty, a hundred, twohundred to the acre—often with boulders scattered here and there,is very far from a crop-bearing proposition. This, however, is whatmany of our farms are made from, and the question is, how tobring about the necessary transformation without spendin
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