230 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The afternoon session of the closing day of the meeting 

 was called to order at 1 :45 by President Rogers. 



A short time was spent in the discussion of questions from 

 the program list, as follows : 



AIr. Burr: Mr. President, will you take up No. 10? 



President Rogers : "Who has tried subsoiling an old or- 

 chard with dynamite?'' That is a good question. Has anyone 

 here tried dynamite in subsoiling their orchard ? We have 

 used it at our place just to blow stumps out, but I hardly 

 think that subsoiling has been tried very much in Connecticut 

 yet. There are a great many, though, who have cleaned up 

 their orchards and have used it in cleaning out the stumps. At 

 our place we keep it on hand all the time. I want a case of 

 dynamite, or a part of a case, all the while, and then when we 

 come to a big rock, or have to tackle a tough old stump, you 

 can put a stick of dynamite under it and loosen it up so that 

 you can draw it out. You can put a stick under three different 

 sides of a stump and loosen it up. If you have a battery, you 

 can lift that stump right out just as easy as anything, whereas, 

 if vou put one stick under the stump, it does not blow it up. 

 Sometimes it wants three or four. That is what most of the 

 people that I know of are using dynamite for. 



A Member : Doesn't it bore deep holes in the dirt ? 



President Rogers : Well, of course, you get them down 

 deeper than what you would naturally blow, but they are eas- 

 ily filled up. I believe, for setting out new orchards on some 

 very hard land, dynamite would be a good thing. I believe 

 Mr. Hale has done that. It blows up the soil and loosens it 

 up for quite a distance. I have never tried it for that, but I 

 believe this spring I will try it. 



Mr. Burr : Do you bore holes in the stump to put it in ? 



President Rogers: In blowing up old stumps we dig 

 around and put it under. 



