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. One man can do all the work, if necessary. After the stumps are all blasted out, you will have a new, rich field, and easy to cultivate, requiring no fertilizer to yield bumper crops. If you want to remove a whole tree, "Red Cross" Dynamite will lift it bodily out of the ground, and it will usually fall with the wind. When this is done, _there is no stump left to remove_. Boulders, which you are now obliged to plow around, can be broken up into easily handled blocks by a single blast. What it Costs to Blast Out Stumps. At the latest "Farming with Dynamite" demonstration, held under the auspices of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, at Ivor, Va., on August 11, 1910, one and one-half acres, containing forty-six stumps were cleared in one day, at an expense of $18.00, including labor, or an average of 39 cents per stump. Records kept by the Long Island Railroad, covering operations on their Experimental Farm, showed that, including the wages of the men who did the work, the cost of blasting out stumps averaged about 16 cents per stump. Records kept of the cost of this work in different sections of the country show as follows: Locality and Kind of Stump. Average Average Cost Diameter. Per Stump. =Southern=-- Pine Stumps 29 inches $0.30 =Pennsylvania=-- Apple, Ash and Chestnut 34-1/2 inches .56 =Michigan=-- White Pine, Maple and Birch 32 inches .47 =Minnesota=-- Birch, Ash, Spruce and Pine 20 inches .16 =Illinois=-- Oak, Walnut and Gum 30 inches .53 =Western=-- Fir, Pine and Cedar 50 inches 1.13 Redwood 8 feet and over 2.00 and over Records kept by Prof. A. J. McGuire, Superintendent Experimental Farm of the University of Minnesota, show even lower costs. Breaking Up Hard-Pan, Shale or Clay Soils. This is probably the most important use of "Red Cross" Dynamite.