Found That Dynamite Kills Fungus 



August 10, 1911. 

 Gentlemen : 



A few years ago I experimented in planting trees with dynamite. It was 

 a decided success. My neighbors observed the results and now many of them 

 are talking of using this method hereafter. My observations were as follows: 



1st. Made new land out of old. It made a drainage for stagnant waters and 

 provision for carrying moisture down in the wet season and up in the dry 

 season by breaking up and pulverizing the soil and establishing a capillary 

 attraction between moisture beneath and air above. 



2nd. In resetting an old orchard of diseased or dead trees, it is regarded 

 as fatal to reset, without digging the hole and letting it stand for a year or two. 

 If the old tree is blown out with dynamite and the ground left for a few hours with 

 fumes imbedded, it will kill all fungus, bacteria, grubs, and animal parasites. The 

 tree thus treated will grow and do as well as on virgin soil. 



3rd. The tree will hava more vigor and vitality, will grow faster, bear 

 earlier, and be more productive and longer lived. 



4th. The combined cost of blowing hole and planting tree is but a trifle 

 more than digging hole and planting tree the old way. 



Very truly yours, 



J. A. TEAGARDEN, Auburn, Cai. 



Kills Fungus 



ARBOR HILL NURSERIES, SALES GROUNDS AT SUMMIT STATION, 



BROWN WOOD, TEX., Nov. 4, 1911. 



One experiment I made while at Arlington, Texas, in application of dyna- 

 mite will no doubt be of interest to you. 



In spring of 1910 I planted a number of cherry trees upon a plot of land 

 that was infested in spots by rot fungus; and I happened to plant one of 

 these cherry trees in one of those spots ; said tree was dead by the first of June, 

 1910, with roots rotted. 



Last winter I placed a stick of dynamite about 30 inches deep in the 

 same identical spot, exploded it and immediately planted another cherry tree, 

 which grew well during all the past summer and fall without showing any 

 indication of root rot. 



I believe the organism of root rot disease is delicate enough that a shock 

 occasioned by explosion of dynamite will destroy it within considerable distance 

 of centre of explosion. 



Very truly yours, 



CHAS. F. WARD. 



Two Men and Dynamite One Day Better Than Three Men 

 One Week Without Dynamite 



A. F. BORNOT BRO. Co., I?TH STREET AND FAIRMOUNT AVENUE, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., April 26, 1911. 

 Dear Sirs: 



Your Mr. Fulmer was here Monday and together we made about one hun- 

 dred holes which has enabled my gardener to plant one hundred peach trees 

 the following day. Three men could not have done the same amount of work 

 in a week. The ground is now very loose ; I am more than pleased and would 

 not plant another tree on my place without explosives. 



Very respectfully, 



A. F. BORNOT BRO. CO. L. 



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