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A serious situation has arisen that is interfering with 
the Government’s urgent demand for increased food 
production. 
The remedy lies in the hands of the thousands of 
farmers who are accustomed to the use of explosives 
in agriculture. Will you help the Government, help 
us and, most of all, help your brother farmers? 
The Federal war measure, requiring the licensing 
of all sellers, buyers and users of explosives, has, we 
find, created the false impression that the Government 
wants to restrict the sale of explosives. That is all 
wrong. The Department of Agriculture is most anxi¬ 
ous that the sale and use of explosives for putting more 
land under cultivation and increasing food production 
be made as simple and easy as possible. 
They have told us that in every community where 
farmers need explosives for these purposes, they will 
arrange for the appointment of local licensing agents. 
They ask for names of loyal American citizens, author¬ 
ized to administer oaths, whom they can appoint as 
licensors. In fact, there should be a licensor in every 
town where there is a dealer in explosives. 
Therefore, if the nearest Government licensing agent 
is far away from you, get a few of your fellow towns¬ 
men to join you in recommending a good neighbor as 
licensing agent. If he is acceptable to the Government, 
he will get the appointment and it will then be easy 
for any American farmer to get all the explosives he 
needs. Send the name and address of the person 
Wanted! 
recommended for licensor to Mr. F. S. Peabody, Bu¬ 
reau of Mines, Washington, D. C. This can be done 
either by dealers in explosives or by customers desir¬ 
ing to use them. A License costs l)ut twenty-five 
cents. 
Here is another way you can help a lot: 
Thousands of farmers know they ought to use ex¬ 
plosives but are afraid. 
The hundreds of thousands of other farmers experi¬ 
enced in their use and who know both how valuable 
they are and that they are safer than gasoline, fracti¬ 
ous horses, dr lots of machinery and implements every 
farmer uses, can help their fellow farmers by telling 
them explosives are dangerous only to careless people 
and explaining how long they have used them with 
perfect safety. 
We would like to hear from thousands of users so 
we can print their experiences in a book that we can 
send to other farmers who are now afraid to use ex¬ 
plosives. 
Please write us. We will greatly appreciate your . 
courtesy and you will be helping to increase the Na¬ 
tion’s food production. 
If you have never used dynamite, just get our Giant 
Laborer Booklet, which will cost you only a postage 
stamp, and learn what dynamite really is and how it 
will help solve your farm labor problems. Mark the 
coupon below which tells some of the commoner farm 
uses of dynamite. 
Mail This Coupon 
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. 
Wilmington (30) Delaware 
Please send me your Giant Laborer Booklet. I am interested in using Red Cross Farm Powder for the work indicated 
Stumps Planting Trees Digging Wells _ _ .Straightening Channels 
Boulders 
Ditches 
Draining Wet .Spots 
Rejuvenating Trees 
Post or Pole Holes 
Splitting Logs 
Blasting Ice or Log Jams 
Digging Cellars, Trenches, Etc. 
Tearing Down Walls 
Building or Improving Road.s 
Loosening Gravel, Rock or Clay 
Filling Gullies 
Name . 
Your Business. 
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