. Improving crop yields by the use of dynamite . enty years ago. After digging anumber of holes for the young trees, he decided that life was tooshort for such slow methods, and drove to town, where he boughta case of dynamite, some blasting caps and fuse from the hardwaredealer. With this he blasted holes for the remaining trees, and to-day, twenty years later, he reports that the trees planted in the blastedholes are superior in every way to the others, and that they haveproduced better fruit and more of it, ever since they began bearing. One successful Missouri fruit grower states that he w
. Improving crop yields by the use of dynamite . enty years ago. After digging anumber of holes for the young trees, he decided that life was tooshort for such slow methods, and drove to town, where he boughta case of dynamite, some blasting caps and fuse from the hardwaredealer. With this he blasted holes for the remaining trees, and to-day, twenty years later, he reports that the trees planted in the blastedholes are superior in every way to the others, and that they haveproduced better fruit and more of it, ever since they began bearing. One successful Missouri fruit grower states that he would neverthink of replanting where a tree had died out, without blasting thehole for the new tree with dynamite. The new trees then are not solikely to be attacked by wet rot and other diseases, and are markedlybetter than those planted in holes which are not blasted. So many other similar cases have been brought to our atten-tion that we feel every fruit grower should give the question of usingexplosives careful and thorough consideration. 75. A DIFFICULT PROBLEM Although the tree had been cut from this stump for many years the stump was still comparatively solid THE LAST STAGE KEEPING UP THE FARM BREAKING UP ICE GORGESSTARTING LOG JAMSBREAKING UP LOG ROLLWAYS
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