. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Timely Tips on Stump and Boulder Blasting These tips will help you get better results whenever you use dynamite for land-clearing, ditching, or tree- planting. Cut them out and save them. Crimping the Cap Cut a sufficient length of fuse squarely off, and slip cap over the end. Crimp cap to fuse, as shown, with cap crimper,— it is absolutely essential to USE A CAP CRIMPER, —obtainable from your dealer or direct from us. Priming the Cartridge Punch a hole with handle of cap crimper in the side of cartridge deep enough to contain all of the cap. See illustration at
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Timely Tips on Stump and Boulder Blasting These tips will help you get better results whenever you use dynamite for land-clearing, ditching, or tree- planting. Cut them out and save them. Crimping the Cap Cut a sufficient length of fuse squarely off, and slip cap over the end. Crimp cap to fuse, as shown, with cap crimper,— it is absolutely essential to USE A CAP CRIMPER, —obtainable from your dealer or direct from us. Priming the Cartridge Punch a hole with handle of cap crimper in the side of cartridge deep enough to contain all of the cap. See illustration at left. Securing Fuse After inserting cap with fuse attached, tie a cord around fuse and then around cartridge, as shown. If several cartridges are needed, this "primer" cartridge is put in last. After loading, tamp earth tightly in hole using a WOODEN tamping stick. The success of the shot depends largely on the tightness of the tamping. For most satisfactory results,be sure that your dealer sells you Explosives and Blasting Accessories The Farmers'Handbook of Explosives tells how to use explosives for land-clearing, ditching, tree-planting and other farm work. Write for free copy today. E. I. du Pont de Nemours 8C Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington. Portland, Oregon Spokane, Washington manager of the Hood River Fruit company. Apple boxes were retailed to growers last year at 27 to 28 cents each. A price of 17 and 18 cents, it is expected, will be established this year. The cost of strawberry crates and pear boxes show's a similar decline. The Wasco Farm Bureau News notes that the cherry orchards in that vicinity injured by the freeze a year ago will need unusually good cultivation this year. Trees which had a great deal of top killed will be in danger of losing a large part of their root system also, and this must be prevented if possible by good care this year. When the top of a tree is sud- denly kilted, there is often insufficient vegeta- tion to support the roots a
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