CLEARING LAND IN THE LAKE STATES. 



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The work was done by an extensive stumping contractor. The 

 stony ground made digging holes under the roots and cleaning the 

 stumps expensive. The large size of the stumps made their removal 

 costly. The stumps were to be piled later in the year by the use of 

 a log jammer. 



TRACT NO. 11. 



The operation on tract No. 11 consisted of pulling 1,319 large white- 

 pine and scattering hardwood stumps on silt-loam to clay-loam soil. 

 In places this tract was very stony. The outfit was a tripod stump 

 puller, the same as that used for tract No. 10, which was adjacent. 

 It had been logged 30 years before. All the second growth and logs 

 had been removed. The average size of the stumps was slightly 

 larger than those on tract No. 10. The average number of stumps 

 pulled per day was 37, and the cost was as shown in Table XI. 



Table XI. — Cost of stumping tract No. 11} 



Days em- 

 ployed. 



Cost. 



Per diem. Total 



Pulling and cleaning stumps: 



2 men, 35.6 days each 



1 man with team 



1 man with 3 horses 



Use of stump puller '. 



Dynamite (40 per cent strength), 500 pounds, at 13 cents. 



Caps and fuse 



Piling and burning (estimated) 



71.2 

 35.6 

 35.6 

 35.6 



4.50 

 5.85 

 1.50 



Total 



Average per stump . 



$124. 50 

 160. 20 

 208. 26 

 53.40 

 65.00 

 2.51 

 450. 00 



1,063.87 

 .806 



i Time of stumping, Aug. 12 to Sept. 26, 1913. 



A small charge of dynamite was placed under the larger stumps in 

 order to split and loosen them. In commenting on the use of dyna- 

 mite here, the contractor said: "This is the only job in my seven 

 years of stumping where it would pay to use dynamite under nearly 

 every stump." The owner of this tract had previously used dynamite 

 in stumping on his land. 



TRACT NO. 12. 



Tract No. 12 contained 40 acres of nearly level land with sandy- 

 loam soil. The outfit was the same as for tract No; 11. The total 

 number of stumps pulled was 2,400. The total number of stumps 

 per acre was 60. The average number of stumps pulled per day was 

 100. The stumps averaged somewhat smaller than in the two pre- 

 ceding tracts, and the soil was sandy loam and free from stones. 

 This work was done at a contract price of 18 cents per stump for 

 pulling, cleaning, and tipping. The actual cost was 14 cents per 

 stump, as shown in Table XII. 



