FIG. 66. NOVEL PROOF OF VALUE OF SUBSOILING 



Above view shows a California oatfield recently cleared of stumps. Wherever a stump 

 had been blown out, the oats grew a foot higher, as shown by the dark streak. The same blast 

 that threw out the stump broke up the subsoil underneath it. In regular subsoiling, the effect 

 is broader because the charge is confined underground. 



We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. Bud Lane, of Hope, Indiana, who has done blasting 

 for a number of years. In his letter he tells of an experience he had with a farmer. 



He blasted, for this farmer, a field of stumps; payment for this work was not to be made 

 until three months later. When Mr. Lane called to obtain settlement the farmer claimed that 

 the number of stumps for which he asked payment was too great. Mr. Lane said that he 

 could prove that his estimate was true, but the farmer thought that impossible as the field 

 was sown in wheat. They went out to the field, and on each spot where a stump had been blown 

 out the wheat was several inches higher than in places which had not been affected by the 

 blasting. Mr. Lane very easily proved his point in this way. 



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