Why Red Cross Dynamite is the Best Stump Remover 



When Red Cross Dynamite is properly used, stump or boulders 

 are not only blasted out of the ground but are broken into pieces 

 which can be easily handled. 



Red Cross Dynamite a Money and Labor Saver 



Since I learned how to use dynamite, I have discarded the stump puller 

 entirely, and will not use it again, as I figure dynamite is a money and a labor 

 saver, as well as a time saver, and if we are to make any headway in this 

 section clearing land, we must use dynamite or we will not have farms until 

 we are old men. 



The stumps often average 100 to the acre, and to get these out with a 

 stump puller would require an enormous amount of labor and in addition the 

 wear and tear on harness, and strain and chances of injuring horses must be 

 considered. Dynamite removes all these difficulties, and also can be used under 

 conditions where it would be impossible to employ team labor. 



Stumps when split with dynamite burn easily. Stumps pulled with a 

 puller have to be repiled sometimes several times, in order to get them to 

 burn. Besides the extra labor involved in burning, the humus is entirely burnt 

 out of the soil adhering to the roots of the stumps, and this loss is a large 

 one, as we are beginning to learn. 



The use of dynamite for blasting boulders is becoming very general, and 

 is so cheap as to make the use of other means of disposing of them ridiculous. 



For ditch digging in wet and low places, dynamite certainly is the thing, 

 as it cheapens the cost of doing the work, permits of ditching being done 

 where it is impossible to get in with machinery and horses, and also allows of 

 the work being done in a short time. 



Last year (1911) I used 1,300 pounds of Red Cross on about thirty-five 

 acres and will use nearly as much this year, and cheerfully recommend it for 

 land-clearing purposes. 



JORGEN JUHL, Askov, Minnesota. 



\Yhen a stump is properly blasted but little of the soil is thrown 

 out with it, and it is not necessary to spend time and money clearing 

 the earth from roots. Burning cut stumps is an exceedingly slow and 

 incomplete process and besides destroys the humus in the soil for many 

 yards around so that several years of special fertilization of that spot is 

 necessary. 



Only a very small outlay is necessary at one time when Red Cross 

 Dynamite is used, and two men can work at as little relative cost as a 

 dozen or a hundred. 



Red Cross Beats Stump Puller in Many Ways 



The 700 stumps on the ten acres that I have cleared have been blasted with 

 dynamite, with the exception of about two acres, which was done with a team and 

 stump puller. I find the dynamite so much cheaper and better that I cannot afford 

 to use a stump puller. 



Dynamite will break the stump and leave it so that it can be handled, while 

 a stump puller leaves it so large that it is impossible to handle without break- 

 ing. I consider the latter method entails an expense of about 50 per cent. more. 



I also find that the stump is free from dirt when dynamite is used, which 

 is not the case with a stump puller. I find that the ground works easier and 

 is more productive where dynamite is used, as it shakes up the soil and 

 breaks the hard soil under the stump which a puller will not do. 



Also, for the boulders it cannot be beat, as one can remove a boulder in a 

 few minutes, which a stump puller will not handle, and which has to be drilled 

 and broken in pieces before it can be handled even if pulled from the ground. 



I think a man and a box of dynamite will remove more stumps in a dav 

 than two men and a team with a stump puller. 



E. L. STEVEN, Remer, Minn. 

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