Plants Six Hundred Acres for $6.00 an Acre 



WOODLAKE, CAL., June 30, 1911. 



During the past three years we have set out six hundred acres of 

 lemon and orange trees and in every instance have used a stick of your 

 dynamite (Red Cross) in the hole where the tree was planted. The trees 

 are all healthy and doing fine. There is a very marked difference between the 

 trees that were set in this manner and those not dynamited. 



In using this dynamite we bore a hole three feet with a two inch auger 

 at a cost of about two cents per hole, which, with the cost of the dynamite 

 and the labor in exploding same for ninety holes per acre, is about $6.00 

 per acre. There is no other manner by which the ground can be prepared 

 so well for planting at this cost. 



WOODLAKE ORCHARD CO., By G. F. Stevenson. 



Planting Walnut Trees in California 



I planted 100 walnut trees this year with explosives and they have already 

 grown larger than those I planted the year before where I did not use any 

 powder in digging the holes. The powder beats anything I ever ^ saw for 

 making the trees grow fast. My land is mixed with sand and it is mostly 

 black loam. I drilled my holes seven feet deep and then put in a half stick 

 of Hercules No. 2, 40% and a handful of Champion and tamped the holes 

 tight. After the explosion you could shove down a stick to a depth of ten 

 feet, and I do not figure my cost over 20c. per hole. It would cost many 

 times as much to dig them by hand and then the holes would not be half 

 as good as those dug with powder. I have been using powder for many 

 years, but never before for tree planting, but hereafter all my trees will 

 be planted with powder, as there is nothing like it. 



JAMES GRUBB, Tudor, Sutter County, Cal. 



Gets World's Record Breakers in Dry Farming Section 



GOODPASTURE, COLO., December 16, 1911. 



Many years ago I saw a farmer using this on a portion of irrigated ground 

 that he could not dig with a spade, and these few trees did much better than 

 where the holes were dug. The thought occurred to me if this was good for 

 irrigated ground, it ought to apply to non-irrigated, so I thought I would give it 

 a test. I dug my tree holes 2 feet in diameter and 2 feet deep, drove a drill 

 in the bottom of this hole about 24 inches (and by tapping the sides of this 

 drill, it can be easily pulled out). I used about two-thirds of a stick of dyna- 

 mite which opened the ground many feet. 



The cost of dynamite for these holes was about 10 cents each, and the 

 land is of such a nature that it would have cost ten times that much to dig 

 these holes by hand. I also planted a few trees, in spade-dug holes. These 

 trees have died, while the fruit from the trees planted in dynamite-dug holes 

 won a world's prize. 



My first planting of trees by this method of dynamiting and thorough 

 cultivating was 180 apple trees, set in the spring of 1901, and I have only 

 lost one and that was killed by the rabbits. Have planted many trees since by 

 this method with good results. Trees begin to bear the second year and look as 

 well as irrigated ones. They are the world's record breakers. 



LEE R. ROPER. 



"Never Again" for the Spade 



CROZET, VA., November 7, 1911. 



I am using your Red Cross Dynamite every day now ; and have bought 

 250 pounds to plant 1,000 trees, and am getting along fine, and find it O. K. I 

 shall never dig another hole for trees except with dynamite. 



Several of my neighbors came around and I showed them the work. 

 Then they bought dynamite to plant their trees with. 



S. K. GARRISON, Grower of Apples, Peaches, Pears, Strawberries. 



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