Stump Puller Discarded for Red Cross Dynamite 



During December, 1911. I used 40 per cent. Red Cross Dynamite for clear- 

 ing white oak stumps ranging from two to three feet in diameter. 



This work, labor and all, cost about 15 cents per stump or an average of 

 $36.60 per acre as compared with a cost of at least 35 cents per stump or 

 $84 per acre by using a stump puller. Another thing, the land was practically 

 worthless, but after clearing it is valued at $90 per acre. 



There is no other method which can be compared with dynamite. I have 

 a horse stump puller and yet I use dynamite in preference to the puller. 



GEO. L. FISCUS, Egg Harbor, N. J. 



Dynamite Cheaper Than a Donkey Engine 



There was a piece of land on my property which I wished to clear. 

 During the first week in March I moved about forty fir and cedar stumps with 

 Red Cross (low freezing) Dynamite, 40 per cent. 



This work cost me about $1 per stump, a total of $40. The stumps ranged 

 from one-and-a-half to three feet in diameter, and would have cost $2.50 per 

 stump or a total of $100, taken out by any other method. 



1 have quite a number of stumps to move this fall, averaging about three 

 feet in diameter, and will certainly use Red Cross Dynamite. 



There was a donkey engine working on my neighbor's place, but I beat it 

 with my dynamite. 



BURT P. WEISE, Carrolton, Wash. 



Finds Stumps an Expensive Luxury 



I removed ten acres of stumps last spring from a field that I put in corn, 

 and six acres in the fall, which were put in wheat. I have made up my mind 

 never to farm around stumps in the future, but to take them out with dyna- 

 mite. If your readers think my judgment is not good I only ask them to give 

 it a fair trial. I thought like a great many others that it was too expen- 

 sive, but if you count loss of land where the stumps stand, loss of time in 

 working around them, chances of spoiling young horses, causing sore shoul- 

 ders, breakage of machinery, worry and inconvenience of the man who does 

 the work, you will find it economical rather than expensive. 



HOMER C. SMALL, Martinsburg, W. Va. 



Red Cross Removes 10,000 Stumps ; Trebles Land Value 



During the last four years I have blasted about 10,000 pine, poplar, elm, 

 oak, and spruce stumps, ranging from 10 inches to 4 feet in size, on all of 

 which 40 per cent. Red Cross Dynamite was used. 



I cleared about 100 acres at a cost of about 9 l / 2 cents per stump, or $10 

 per acre and feel very certain that by any other method this work would 

 have cost at least 25 cents per stump or $25 per acre. 



Before removing these stumps this land was worth about $16 per acre, 

 but today each acre is worth $60. It has been planted to corn and potatoes, 

 and I invariably get better crops off the land cleared with dynamite than off 

 other land not so cleared. I also secured a better stand on spots from which 

 the stumps have been blasted than from other portions. In fact, I feel 

 that the use of Red Cross Dynamite has enabled me to blast and burn the 

 stumps cheaper than I could remove the same stumps after they were pulled. 

 Red Cross Dynamite will be used exclusively on the 200 acres that I am 

 going to clear next year. 



I have a neighbor who had a "Smith" grubber. Last summer he worked in 

 a twelve-acre field six weeks with two men and one team. They cleared about 

 nine acres and the stumps are still on the edge of the field. About the same 

 time, in an adjoining field. 1 blasted and burned every stump on fifteen acres 

 in seven weeks, and did it alone. 



C. E. SAUNDERS, Bergville, Minn. 



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