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methods discussed " (in an article they pub- 

 lished) "will convince planters that at last 

 there is material available to accomplish the 

 work expeditiously and economically." 



"In South Africa," reports the Home and 

 Colonial Mail well known throughout India 

 and the East "experiments in ploughing by 

 dynamite are becoming quite popular. It is 

 claimed that operations can be carried out 

 without injuring crops, and demonstrations are 

 now taking place all over the Union with the 

 object of fostering agriculture. The cost per 

 acre is said to work out at between 1 IDS. 

 and ^"5, according to the nature of the soil and 

 trees. Dynamite can be used for ditching, for 

 constructing irrigation furrows, and other farm- 

 ing purposes." 



All the leading papers in the rubber pro- 

 ducing world, as well as those devoted to 

 planting interests elsewhere, recommend atten- 

 tion to the use of dynamite for estate work. 

 Its use especially appeals to me for out-of- 

 the-way sections, and particularly in Latin 

 America, where the transport, even of the 

 lightest make of ploughs, is difficult and 

 costly, often impossible. In centres where 

 the tsetse or other pest discourages the use 

 of draught animals, the use of explosives should 

 rapidly increase. Possibly the shocks, if not 

 the actual explosions, might diminish the pests, 

 especially if steps were taken to attract them 

 to the spot by bait, in the shape of food to 



