Du Pont Farmers' Handbook: Instructions in the Use of High Explosives for Clearing Land, Planting and Cultivating Trees, Drainage, Ditching and Subsoiling (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Du Pont Farmers' Handbook: Instructions in the Use of High Explosives for Clearing Land, Planting and Cultivating Trees, Drainage, Ditching and Subsoiling

Ever since the first white man started a permanent settlement in this country, the transformation of forests into farms has been carried on continually and at an ever-increasing speed. So great is the magnitude of the land clearing operations today, so large is the annual expenditure in this work, that it has become a factor of prime importance in the national economy and the necessity for a careful study of all its phases to the end of improving the various methods now in practice, is everywhere recognized.

If, after the passing of the wood chopper and the sawmill, the land were ready for the plow, there would be no problem to solve; but a great area covered with stumps, thirty, fifty, a hundred, two hundred to the acre - with a number of boulders scattered here and there - is very far from a crop-bearing condition.

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