After Using Red Cross Dynamite Would Not Sell Land for 



$100.00 per Acre Which Was Not Worth 



$5.00 Before 



I follow agricultural blasting among the farmers of this section, and have 

 used a great amount of dynamite in this work. 



In stump blasting I have used dynamite on all kinds and all sizes of stumps 

 in cultivated and uncultivated fields, and my experience has been that it is not 

 only quicker and more satisfactory than any other method but it is cheaper 

 by two-thirds. 



As to boulder blasting probably the following experience may be of some 

 interest to you : 



In 1904 one of my neighbors bought a farm of about 108 acres. There 

 was one field of about twenty-five acres that had never been cleared up, and 

 boulders lay so thick that I have crossed the entire twenty-five acres without 

 stepping on the ground. They ranged in sizes from one-half ton to twenty 

 tons, and. many of them weighing from five to eight tons were imbedded in the 

 ground so that I could see nothing but the top. 



I contracted with Mr. Buechner to break up all the boulders on this twenty- 

 five acres in shape to draw. I used four boxes of 40 per cent. Extra Red 

 Cross (low freezing) Dynamite, which, together with my labor charge, cost 

 him $78 to get all these boulders ready for a team. 



Before I started to work on this land it was absolutely worthless, but since 

 then I have seen sixty-two bushels of wheat to the acre grow on that field, 

 also fifty-two bushels of oats per acre and 140 bushels of corn. Furthermore, 

 Mr. Buechner has since refused about three times the price that this farm cost 

 him, and it was nothing but Red Cross Dynamite that put it in shape. 



R. T. VAN DUSEN, Manlius, N. Y. 



It is all quite true what Mr. Van Dusen stated. The land was not worth 

 $5 before, but is as good now as any in the neighborhood. I would not sell 

 it for less than $100 per acre. 



GODFREY BUECHNER, Manlius, N. Y. 



Breaking Boulders 



I have had excellent results in removing boulders and breaking them up 

 with mudcaps. In Massachusetts, many boulders of granite formation, known 

 as "hardheads" are found. They are usually round and smooth and frequently 

 the larger portion of them is buried in the ground. They are regarded as a 

 hard proposition by experienced blasters. If only a part of the boulder shows 

 above the surface, I sound with a three-eighth inch steel rod five feet long 

 with a sharp point and poker handle, to determine the size and position of the 

 stone underground. I then place a relatively small charge of dynamite under 

 one end or one side, the discharge of which rolls the boulder out upon the 

 surface of the ground. It then takes a small charge of dynamite to completely 

 shatter it. I frequently dispose of the pieces by placing them back in the hole, 

 thus saving the expense of carting them away. There is usually room in the 

 hole for all of the pieces and still allow for eighteen inches of top soil over 

 them. 



W1XTHROP FILLEBROWN, Bryantville, Mass. 



Largest Boulders Successfully Blasted 



I am sending you a photograph of a rock which weighed between six and 

 eight tons. As shown by the picture one man could handle any piece of it 

 after the blast. The farmer for whom this blasting was done had spent for 

 labor from $50 to $60 in clearing five or six acres of small boulders. I 

 cleared about as much for $8 by using Red Cross Dynamite. 



W. H. NANGLE, Thorndale, Texas. 

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