The furc^oini: clearly proves the advantages of clearing- land with 

 dynamite instead of by any other means, and the following is a condensed 

 outline of the benefits derived by doing this work. 



The stump-covered site of a former piece of woods is, as you know, 

 new, rich soil that needs no fertilizer. 



You also know that pulling stumps with a machine is the hardest 

 kind of work liable to seriously injure yourself or your horses, and 

 certain to require a lot of work to get rid of the stump after pulling. 



Then, too, it leaves the field full of holes, that must be filled ; and 

 plowing the hard, packed soil around old roots is no joke. 



If instead of pulling the stumps you burn them out, the intense heat 

 required destroys the humus in the soil all around the fire and you will 

 have a burned field requiring a good deal of cultivating instead of new 

 fertile soil. 



You can dynamite all those stumps for about one- third the cost of 

 pulling and chopping them up. 



The blast splits up the stump into firewood, removes all the dirt, 

 breaks all the main roots, and loosens the soil for yards around. 



You can blast fifty stumps in the time it would take to pull and 

 chop up one or two. 



One man can do all the work, if necessary. 



After the stumps are all blasted out, you will have a new, rich field, 

 easy to cultivate, and which will yield bumper crops. 



If you want to remove a whole tree, Red Cross Dynamite will 

 lift it bodily out of the ground, and it will usually fall with the wind. 

 When this is done, there is no stump to remove. 



The split stumps can be removed easily to one place, burned, and 

 the ashes saved for spreading on the land or for leaching. 



If whole stumps are preferred for making fences, they may be blown 

 out whole by regulating the charges. 



Boulders, which you are now obliged to plow around, can be broken 

 up into easily-handled blocks by a single blast. 



Red Cross Dynamite not only removes your stumps and boulders but 

 at the same time subsoils your land. The action of the explosion is 

 such as to loosen and shake up the subsoil for a considerable distance 

 around, the blast thereby rendering the land porous and mellow. It is 

 an easy matter to pick out, after crops are grown, the various places 

 where stumps have been blasted because of the great difference in yield 

 as compared with the rest of the field. 



All of the foregoing claims are conclusively proven by the letters 

 of disinterested parties, who have tried our methods, which are quoted in 

 this booklet. Follow their advice ; take advantage of their experience ; 

 join the Red Cross Army and be the happy, prosperous owner of a 

 productive, sightly farm. 



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