E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

“ 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.
[pg 5] 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. ”

“ 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 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. ”

“ This matter is worthy of as much consideration on the part of farmers, and all others concerned with national resources, as the reclamation of desert areas in the West.
Surely it is as important to restore the productiveness of established farms in the East, as it is to open up new, fertile fields in the West and Southwest. ”

“ Complete instructions are furnished in the "Handbook of Explosives for Farmers, Planters and Ranchers."
Clearing Land of Stumps, Trees and Boulders, Breaking up Hard-Pan, Shale, or Clay Subsoils, Plowing, Planting and Cultivating Orchards, Digging Ditches, Post Holes, Wells and Reservoirs, Road-Making and Grading, Excavating Cellars and Foundation Trenches, Regenerating Old, Worn-out Farms.
Clearing Land of Stumps, Boulders and Trees.
It is needless to tell you the advantages of clearing land. ”