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otherwise die, and tliey induce mildews 

 and rusts by reducing air and sunliglit 

 around the garden plants. These weeds 

 are now going to seed; winter winds 

 will jar that seed out, and the chances 

 for a heavy stand of weeds next spring 

 will be quite good. 



Other good things to remove now, 

 and as the later crops mature, are the 

 ci-op remnants, especially if there has 

 been disease or insect infestation. Dead 

 stalks are wintering-over places for dis- 

 eases and insects. 



Stalks removed had best be burned, 

 though if a compost pile is made the 

 insect-infested stalks ma\- be thrown on 

 it. Disease spores survive the compost- 

 ing temperature; burning is safest. — 

 .1. S. (lardner, Missouri College of Agri- 

 culture. 



Notes on the Gas-Action of Farm 

 E.xplosives. 



Of late years there has come on the 

 market, in response to a growing de- 

 mand from farmers, explosives particu- 

 larly suited to their work. The coal 

 miner has his particular kind and grade 

 of dynamite and powder, and the rock 

 and (piarry man his kinds. Too often 

 the mine and lock powders and dyna- 

 mites have been sold for farm purposes, 

 and the result has been that the stump 

 blasting, or subsoiling, or ditching, has 

 not been done as it should have been, 

 either in cost or effectiveness. 



For removing stumps, and more par- 

 ticularly for soil tillage with explosives, 

 a certain comijarafively slow, lifting, 

 heaving and cracking gas action is 

 wanted. This is totally different from 

 the quick, sharj), shattering and cutting 

 action of most mine and (juarry explo- 

 sives. The proper farm powder will 

 produce an entirely ditferent condition 

 in the soil than will an explosive which 

 is best to use for breaking up stone. 

 The blasting of earth, particularly dry 

 earth, and the removing of loots from 

 the earth, is an entirely different propo- 

 sition from the blasting of stone. In 

 fact, the stone explosive cannot be used 

 with satisfaction in soil work. You 

 cannot get the effect desired. 



Another thing that should be more 

 generally known is that the right kind 

 of farm powder will cost you less than 

 the stone or mine explosive. It is made 

 with an ammonia base instead of a 

 nitroglycerine base, and in these days 

 of war nitroglycerine is a mighty ex- 

 pensive commodity. The average -10% 



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