June. 10-22 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page Fifteen 



diameter, in such thorough manner th.U 

 snags and broken parts may be picked up 

 or dragged to a central spot for burning, 

 with practically no additional labor in pull- 

 ing or cutting roots. Present cost of the 

 stumping powder, or dynamite, is given at 

 5.38 cents a stick. This would represent 

 an outlay of approximately $3 5. 



There would be required approximately 

 35 caps and probably 150 feet of fuse or, 

 instead, perhaps 3 5 electric blasting caps. 

 These materials, it is said, may be pur- 

 chased most anywhere at an outlay of $45 

 to $50. 



It is pointed out that these figures do not 

 constitute an excessive cost of clearing 

 logged-off lands in producing areas. Such 

 costs serve to illustrate the point that, "even 

 if the price of powder were cut in two, the 

 difference to be saved thereby could in no 

 way justify the withholding of suitable 

 soil from development under present con- 

 ditions and prices." 



Detailed figures on costs of stumping 

 powder are given in the report by way of 

 refuting allegations that they are too high 

 to permit of much general land clearing by 

 this method. The figures seem to indicate 

 that the new powder now in use is sold at 

 almost exactly the same price as the old and 

 less efficient powder cost in pre-war days. 

 The actual difference is said to be only 

 eight cents on 100 sticks. 



In the past it has been the practice to use 

 a 20 per cent dynamite or stumping 

 powder, so called, for stump blasting and 

 such powders averaged about 85 sticks to 

 the 50 pound case, or 170 sticks to the 100 

 pounds. 



The aver.ige carload price, f. o. b. point 

 of manufacture, of 20 per cent stumping 

 powders in the years 1909-14 was $9 per 

 100 pounds and, based on 170 sticks to the 

 100 pounds, represented a cost of 5.3 cents 

 per stick or $5.30 per 100 sticks. 



There are now manufactured, at least by 

 the duPont Company, powders of an en- 

 tirely different type, carrying a much 

 greater number of sticks to each 100 pounds 

 and, in carload lots, retailing at $5.38 per 

 100 sticks, or 5.38 cents per stick. This 

 cost is very nearly indentica! with that pre- 

 vailing before the war. 



The newer powders have special advant- 

 ages, it is said, in being non-freezing, non- 

 headache producing, in blasting stumps 

 more throughly than the old types and in 

 working better under all sorts of conditions 

 that may be encountered. 



It is shown in the report on land clear- 

 ing in Washington and Oregon that there 

 is further inducement to such development 

 in the higher prices for farm commodities 

 than were received in 1909-14. It is said 

 that 100 bushels of wheat now purchases 

 1900 sticks of the new powder whereas the 

 same amount then purchased 1700 sticks of 

 a less efficient stumping explosive. 



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