Clearing Farm Land With Red Cross Dynamite 



Kvc-r since the first white man started a permanent settlement 

 in this country, the transformation of forests into farms has been 

 carried mi continually and at an ever-increasing speed. So great is 

 the magnitude of the land clearing operations today, so large is the 

 annual expenditure in this work, that it has become a factor of prime 

 importance in the national economy and the necessity for a careful 

 study of all its phases to the end of improving the various methods now 

 in practice, is everywhere recognized. 



If. after the passing of the wood chopper and the sawmill, the 

 land were ready for the plow, there would be no problem to solve; 

 but a great area covered with stumps, thirty, fifty, a hundred, two 

 hundred to the acre w r ith a number of boulders scattered here and 

 there is very far from a crop-bearing condition. 



When the farmer of the old school already had more acres than 

 he could cultivate a few acres that needed clearing of stumps and 

 boulders a few acres that might have been drained a few acres 

 that were especially adapted to growing a particular crop but hardly 

 seemed worth while to "bother with" these acres naturally were 

 neglected. 



Even some of the new school of farmers, pledged to the new 

 methods of cultivation, are leaving those old, obstructing features 

 of soil surface to the elements, accepting the fact that, as they have 

 never been removed, it isn't worth while at this late day to spend 

 time and money on them. 



Xow, READER, does not the above apply to your case? Haven't 

 you one particular field containing stumps and boulders which is an 

 eye-sore which you think it is hardly worth while to bother with? 

 Have you ever stopped to consider the cost of the damage to your 

 implements these obstructions have caused you? Have you ever 

 reasoned that you have been losing yearly HALF A DOLLAR'S 

 worth of produce which might have been grown in the ground occu- 

 pied by each stump or boulder, and cultivated with less effort than 

 is required to dodge them? We ask you to reason these points out 

 in order that you may recognize the DOLLARS AND CENTS 

 which you could today have deposited in your bank, if you had used 

 a little Du Pont Red Cross Dynamite for their removal. 



You undoubtedly realize that in growing "two blades of grass 

 where only one grew before" you are receiving from the same 

 amount of labor and from the same investment of dollars, an in- 

 creased yield of 100% a premium which accrues to the ledger balance 

 under the general heading of " Enterprise." 



must also appreciate that an acre of land which lies non- 

 productive for a season is comparable with its money value buried under 

 a stone, or with its value in machinery lying idle under the roof of a 

 manufacturing plant. 



Therefore, to make every acre of your farm profitable becomes 

 of first importance, because land that lies waste is taxed and has cha: 

 able to it year after year its proportionate fixed expense. 



In this section we endeavor to bring before you the many ad- 

 vantages to be derived by clearing your farm of stumps and boulders 

 by the use of I )u Pont Red Cross I )\ namite. 



