. Boone County Recorder . ture has really Intended. Incidentally by straight Blasting Ground For Tree Planting ten MONTHS AFTER $300WORTH Of CELEBY PfeBACRE. Burro wers=«Beware! Much has been written on ^»-~2ffSi£taSf^SSSS >of — farmers, while^he plant a tree or trees, but if the experi-ences of scores of famous orchartiistshave any weight on the topic, then thepractice of using dynamite preliminaryto planting young trees has fullyproved its merits. The writer has personally seen spe-cific, examples of the value and excel- lence of tree planting with dynamite»n a private orchard in Delaware
. Boone County Recorder . ture has really Intended. Incidentally by straight Blasting Ground For Tree Planting ten MONTHS AFTER $300WORTH Of CELEBY PfeBACRE. Burro wers=«Beware! Much has been written on ^»-~2ffSi£taSf^SSSS >of — farmers, while^he plant a tree or trees, but if the experi-ences of scores of famous orchartiistshave any weight on the topic, then thepractice of using dynamite preliminaryto planting young trees has fullyproved its merits. The writer has personally seen spe-cific, examples of the value and excel- lence of tree planting with dynamite»n a private orchard in Delaware, the year it is easier to catch the subsoilin dry condition. Blasting In the springfor spring planting, however, is muchbetter than planting In dug holes, not-withstanding the fact that the subsoilis apt to be wet or damp. If the holes are blasted in advance of the time of setting the trees they areleft without further attention until Gophers and prairie dogs are theane of westereast woodchucks are the type of bur-. 1 rowing animals that cause the tillers | tu loosening shale and rock to facili-of the soil to forget some of the things \ »«*« band or steam shovelI work dyna much area of tillable land can be ob-tained and farm operation in many in-stances made~mueh easier. Digging a Ditch In a. Flash Things move quickly nowadays. of yesterday is tomorrowsmetropolis. Speed is a requisite, andjnewer methods that smack of rapidi-ty and labor and money saving are indemand. .Ditches that once consumed manydays of hand or machine labor are nowbeing blasted out in almost the twin-kling of an eye. By degrees man Islearning to adopt some of natures sim-ple, but mighty forces. And the gul-lies and vaHeys-that old-Mother Earthhas created by her natural upheavalsand eruptions are being duplicated ina smaller way by some of tho moreprogressive and up to date farmors. Digging ditches with dynamite issimply a newer and more Improvedmethod of trench building. The meth-od em
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