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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



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Sf^Okving Position of Donkey Engine 



and Riqgjng for Clearing a Ten Acre Tract 



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While Ihis outfit is too expensive for 

 small owners, it could be purchased by a 

 community, or one or more such outfits 

 could be operated by a county or a large 

 company for clearing land. It would be 

 more satisfactory than the makeshift out- 

 fits usually found doing this work. 



Cost of Clearing' Land TTitli Donkey 

 Engine 



The costs here given are taken from 

 actual records of 18 different tracts rang- 

 ing in size from Sio to 19 acres and total- 

 ing 150 acres. Various conditions of soil 

 from silt loam to gravel were encountered. 

 The average number of stumps per acre 



varied from 14 to 56 which ranged in 

 average size on the various tracts from 

 19 to 52 inches at the ground. The cost 

 of explosives ranged from $4.77 to $86.04 

 per acre the average being $21.12. The 

 total cost including labor averaged per 

 acre on the various tracts from $47.40 

 to $222.87, the average of all being $66.44. 

 This represents the entire cost including 

 burning and clearing small stuff after the 

 stumps and large logs were out of the 

 way. 



The whole cost of clearing if charged to 

 the stumps on all the tracts would bring 

 the cost of the stumps to $2.54 each. The 



