Ditching Cranberry Bogs 



This class of ditching differs from the ordinary because what is 

 required is not merely a means of removing surplus water from land, 

 but also a means of flooding the same land several times a year. 



The sort of land best adapted for cranberry culture is ideal for 

 ditching with dynamite because wet and heavy. 



The method used is by propagated blast from a central detonator, 

 no blasting machine or electric fuzes being required. 



The letteF printed below is from one of the country's leading 

 cranberry growers and a pioneer in the use of dynamite for ditching, 

 he having successfully used it for twenty years. At the 1911 annual 

 meeting of the American Cranberry Growers Association, Mr. Rider 

 stated he had never experienced any casualties in using dynamite and 

 considered it safer to handle than gasoline. 



Note his statement regarding effect of blasting on fungus. This 

 bears out similar experiences of orchardists. 



Dynamite Successfully Used for Twenty Years in 

 Cranberry Growing 



Mr. A. J. Rider, Secretary of the American Cranberry Growers' Associa- 

 tion, of Hammonton, N. J., writes: 



I have used dynamite in the development of my cranberry enterprises 

 with success and economy for the past twenty years. In removing obstruc- 

 tions from water courses, opening ditches and preparing the way for dams and 

 flood-gates, it is especially useful. ^ I keep a supply on hand at all times, and 

 my foremen are all instructed in its use. The saving in time and labor thus 

 effected is very great. 



Dynamite will make a straight ditch and under conditions with which 

 nothing but a dredging machine could cope. In excavating for flood-gates 

 the mud walls are temporarily packed so solidly that water hardly seeps 

 through. A crowbar and a stick of dynamite will stop a leak in a dam that 

 would otherwise require hours, and possibly days of labor. All cranberry plants 

 are susceptible to fungus diseases, and much experimenting has been done by 

 growers and government experts to control this enemy. Without being able 

 to give scientific reasons I owe it to dynamite that there has never been fungus 

 growth at Hampton, one of my largest plantations, where I have used it freely. 



If the advantages to be obtained through the use of dynamite were brought 

 to the ^attention of all large cranberry growers I believe you would be doing 

 them a great service. 



Very truly yours, A. J. RIDER. 



Ditching With Dynamite Costs 1 A Ordinary Method 



ST. Louis, Mo., February 8, 1912. 



We take pleasure in advising you that in the month of November, 1911, we 

 dug a ditch with dynamite about 500 yards long, 10 feet wide and 4 feet deep. 

 The result was very satisfactory and gratifying, and the cost was not much 

 more than one-fourth of digging the ditch by ordinary methods. 



If you have any prospective patrons in this section of the country, will take 

 great pleasure in giving them the facts, and if they care to, showing them the 

 result of the ditching done by us. 



Very truly yours, 

 ISLAND REALTY AND INVESTMENT CO. 



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