Clearing Land of Stumps, Boulders and Trees.
It is needless to tell you the advantages of clearing land.
The stump covered site of a former piece of woods, is, as you know, new, rich soil that needs no fertilizer.
You also know that pulling stumps with a machine is the hardest kind of work—liable to injure seriously your horses, and certain to require a lot of work to get rid of the stump after pulling.
Then too, it leaves the field full of holes, that must be filled; and plowing the hard packed soil around old roots is no joke.
If instead of pulling the stumps, you burn them out, the intense heat required destroys the chief fertile elements of the soil all around the fire. After all your hard work you will leave a burned field instead of new, fertile soil.
You can dynamite all those stumps for about one-third the cost of pulling and chopping them up.
The blast splits up the stump into firewood, removes all the dirt, breaks all the main roots, and loosens the soil for yards around.
You can blast fifty stumps in the time it would take to pull and chop up one or two.