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notes, which I'' stopped doing to order a copy 

 to be sent to a cacao planter in the State of 

 Bahia, Brazil. The Queensland Agricultural 

 Journal, already quoted, evidently found the 

 same thing, for the editor writes : " Since 

 the publication of our articles on the value of 

 dynamite as an aid in clearing land, and to 

 subsequent agricultural operations, judging by 

 the numerous letters we have received from 

 farmers and fruit growers seeking further 

 information on the subject, much interest 

 we might almost say enthusiasm has been 

 aroused in many parts of the State in connec- 

 tion with the use of dynamite on the land." 

 Elsewhere the Times of Ceylon quotes the 

 following instance of its use for rubber planting 

 by a Kelani Valley (Ceylon) rubber planter, 

 using only ordinary dynamite cartridges: " First 

 of all he used a quarter of a cartridge, then a 

 half, and then a full one, and kept data of the 

 area of ground disturbed when the quantities 

 of dynamite had been fired. The plough only 

 breaks up the top surface, so that the water 

 mingles and dissolves the plant nutriment to 

 a depth only of a few inches. The sub- soil, 

 however, remains intact, and the roots of the 

 crops have to feed upon what they can obtain 

 from the land broken up by the plough. But 

 breaking the land up by dynamite disturbs it 

 to a depth of several feet, letting in the water 

 which dissolves the essential nutriment, while 

 the roots are able to descend to a greater depth 



