. Better farming with Atlas farm powder, the safest explosive, the original farm powder. Explosives in agriculture. Better Blasting of Ditches many stones. Spades or long handled shovels are good for the purpose, though slower. An axe is needed for cutting off roots larger than an inch or two. The cut should not be straight down, but at a slant such as you want the side of the finished ditch to have. The powder will clean out the ground to the cut, and will leave that beyond solid and unbroken. Powder: Kind and Amount Required. For all elec- tric ditch blasting except in very light soils, Atla
. Better farming with Atlas farm powder, the safest explosive, the original farm powder. Explosives in agriculture. Better Blasting of Ditches many stones. Spades or long handled shovels are good for the purpose, though slower. An axe is needed for cutting off roots larger than an inch or two. The cut should not be straight down, but at a slant such as you want the side of the finished ditch to have. The powder will clean out the ground to the cut, and will leave that beyond solid and unbroken. Powder: Kind and Amount Required. For all elec- tric ditch blasting except in very light soils, Atlas Farm Powder has advantages over any other grade of explosive. To a considerable extent the su- periority cf the electric firing method is due to the possibility of using this com- paratively low-cost powder, instead ot the more expensive straight nitrogly- cerin powder of high percentage which has been recommended exclusively for ditchmg. In very light soils, such as light loams with little moisture in them, other grains. For such soils, Atlas Pow- der 50 per cent, is recommended. This same 50 per cent. Powder is recommended where charges must be left more than half an hour under water before they are fired. Sticks of Atlas Farm Powder, as noted on page 6, are waterproofed with care, and will stand immersion in water for considerable periods of time. Yet prolonged soaking. Proper blasting will open a channel through thick brush and grass, though such a ditch will not measure nearly so much in the clear as if the land were clean and free from roots. You can make channels for boats or for drainage through a marsh where the ground is under water. (Kentucky.) and in wet, sanJy land, a more vio- lent powder will throw dirt out better than Atlas Farm Powde» That is, ow- ing to the poor resistance offered by these loose, open soils. Atlas Farm Powder, which applies its strength more slowly, is handicap;""^d by the sand or fine dirt sifting back into the excavation. Heavie
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