. Intensive farming and use of dynamite . THE BOULDER —AFTER THE BLAST 42 THE SECOND STAGE Getting the Farm in Shape DIGGING DITCHES DRAINING SWAMPS GRADING ROADS EXCAVATING FOR BUILDINGFOUNDATIONS AND CELLARS SINKING WELLS DIGGING HOLES FOR FENCE-POSTS. GETTING THE FARM IN SHAPE WHEN the land has been cleared the work of getting thefarm into shape begins. Ditches must be dug to prop-erly drain the fields—particularly the swampy ones,where often the best soil is found. Roads must be constructed,wells sunk, barns, houses and other buildings erected, fences built,and so on. Dynamite is necessary
. Intensive farming and use of dynamite . THE BOULDER —AFTER THE BLAST 42 THE SECOND STAGE Getting the Farm in Shape DIGGING DITCHES DRAINING SWAMPS GRADING ROADS EXCAVATING FOR BUILDINGFOUNDATIONS AND CELLARS SINKING WELLS DIGGING HOLES FOR FENCE-POSTS. GETTING THE FARM IN SHAPE WHEN the land has been cleared the work of getting thefarm into shape begins. Ditches must be dug to prop-erly drain the fields—particularly the swampy ones,where often the best soil is found. Roads must be constructed,wells sunk, barns, houses and other buildings erected, fences built,and so on. Dynamite is necessary in every one of these opera-tions, if the work is to be done expeditiously and economically. Theinformation to be found in the succeeding pages, as well as thatalready given, has been secured entirely from farmers and otherswho have used explosives for the various purposes described. DITCHING Ditches for draining, and trenches for pipe lines and tiling,are necessary on every farm, and should always be dug withexplosives. The ditching which pays best is that which drainsswampy lands. There are about seventy million acres of this landin the United States, much of which would bear magnificent crops,if drained. The cost of draining by the usual me
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