Red Cross Cleared Land Increased in Value 400 % 



During 1909 I cleared twelve acres of new ground of gum, hickory, white 

 and red oak stumps, ranging from twelve to thirty-six inches in size. 



On this work I used 40 per cent. Red Cross Extra Dynamite and while 

 the very cheapest figure at which I could have cleared this land by any other 

 method would have been from 50 cents to 75 cents per stump or $25 per 

 acre, Red Cross Dynamite did the work at about 20 cents per stump or 

 $10 per acre. 



In addition to the above, the land increased in value from $25 to $100 

 per acre. It was planted to alfalfa during 1909 and produced a much better 

 crop than the adjoining land on which no dynamite had been used. I noticed 

 also that it grew very luxuriantly on spots from which stumps had been 

 removed. 



As fast as I would blow the stumps out, I would have them loaded on 

 wagons and sold for $1.50 per load. They were blown in such pieces as 

 to make them very fine for fireplace wood, not needing any more splitting 

 and the people in the neighborhood were very eager for them. 



I regard the dynamite method a very fine way to clear land of stumps and 

 take pleasure in stating that I was well pleased with results obtained. After 

 deducting the amount received for the wood, it will bring the expense down 

 to a very small item per stump and I shall certainly use Red Cross Dyna- 

 mite on the other twelve-acre plot which I will clear sometime this year. 



H. A. BEATTIE, Starkville, Miss. 



Used a Ton of Dynamite a Week 



It is only fair for me to report the success that I am having with dyna- 

 mite as an agent in blowing stumps on my lt)0-acre tract of woodland at 

 Beartown, Lancaster County. 



I am using a ton of dynamite a week in this work and with the capable 

 force that I now have the results are marvelous. Great chestnut and oak 

 stumps succumb to the dynamite as easily as lifting a match. The benefit 

 derived from this method is incalculable as it practically loosens the earth or 

 subsoil from stump and is making plowing very easy. I have a stump puller 

 on this tract, but it cannot be compared with dynamite as it pulls out stumps 

 leaving roots, and I cannot possibly clear over a quarter of an acre a week 

 with it. 



Anyone is welcome to come and see the results. I have a large picture 

 taken showing the tract clear, which the photographer will no doubt let you 

 have if you care to use it. 



I thank you for the help that your company has displayed in furthering my 

 work. 



FRANK S. BARR, Lancaster, Pa. 



Advantages of Mudcapping Boulders 



Extract from report of demonstration at Grand Rapids, Minn., July 18, 

 1911: 



'This work was new to Mr.' A. J. McGuire, Superintendent of the N. E. 

 Experimental Farm, and he was amazed to see large boulders which two and 

 three teams could not handle broken up in pieces so small ^that they could be 

 lifted into a wagon by one man. He had been in the habit of drilling holes 

 twelve inches deep in the large rock and splitting them with 40 per cent, 

 dynamite, which split the rocks but did not break them up small. 



"The rocks were all granite and some of them presented round smooth 

 surfaces on which to place the dynamite and others had good shoulders against 

 which to place the dynamite. In the latter case a saving of two-third pounds 

 of dynamite was effected on large rocks. Mr. McGuire emphatically stated 

 that he would mudcap large rocks in future and expend his surplus energy 

 in some other directions rather than drilling granite." 



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