Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 23, 1911, Page 13

THE ADVANTAGES OF DYNAMITE IN FARMING (Written Specially for The Pulletin.) "Phe age takes much credit to itself 1 ts rapidity, It is a “fast age” ac- cording to its own confession. Some of us shake wise heads of foreboding and wonder where things are coming Others accept the fastness with faction and rejoice greatly therein. Some of us think the brakes ought to be put on. Oth opine that a little more steam and gasoline and dynamite and thunder and lightning would be a . good thing. 10. Without inquiring too closely into the arguments of these two schools, and assuming, as they both seem to, that the age is really a fast one, go- ing somewhere at a “git thar” gait, it would be natural to suppose that farm- ing would share in the general speed- ing up. This is probably the fact, on one one side at least. I haven't noticed any great acceleration in the movement of the seasons. The earth, I am informed, is spinning on its axis exactly as fast and no faster than for some years past. Likewise it is mak- ing its annual orbit around the sun in just the same number of months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and sec- onds that it always did. The moon and stars, too, all are keeping careful schedule time. Not even a split-second stop-watch at the focus of the Lick telescope can detect any gquickening in their motion. They “haste not and rest not but roll on forever.” The regnant and supreme forces of the uni- verse are manifestly in no more of a hurry now than they were in The Year One. So far as they are con- cerned, and so far as they dominate the fleld of agricultural activity, it is quite clear that this age is meither faster nor slower than any other age that ever has been or ever will be. But it isn’t of them that we think, mostly, when we talk about our fast- ness. We're thinking more of the hu- man side of affairs. It's the way we're doing things that we plume ourselves upon=-not the way that old-fashioned Nature does things. And certainly there has been a marked change in the rate of our going. The advance from bullock wagons and pack mules to the thousand-miles-a-day locomotives of 1911 is hard more striking than the prograss which has been made in farm- ing tools and methods. The other day at a westera fair one big wheat field was given up to an exhibition of the old ways beside the new. In one cor- ner a few men were reaping with the <le—what is now called the “grass Next the others were cradling » grain. Then came an early-built reaper, which required one man to drive, one to work the machine and two to rake off and bind the sheaves Still further along came the self-ra ing reapers and then the self-binders. ILast of all, a huge traction engine was swooping down the acres, drag- ging behind it a veritable machine- shop and factory on wheels, which cut the grain, threshed it, cleaned it, measured it, bagged it, and dumped the bags in wagons trailing alongside. We little farmers in the hilly east have small use for such engines of agriculture evertheless, we like to know about them and to think that our brother hayseeds, sbmewhere else, are able so roaringly to over angient measure of a man’s work. I know I do and the same is probably of you. Were all much of a e TRAVELERS’ DIRECTORY. Norwich Line 7 —TO — NEW YORK STEAMERS CITY OF LOWELL. ——AND— CHESTER W. CHAPIN Choose this route next time you go to New York. You'll have a delightful vovage on Long Island Sound and a superb view of the wonderful sky line and water front of Manhattan Island. Steamer leaves New London at 11 p. m. week days only, due New York, Pler 0. Fast River, at 5.45, and Pier 40, North River, 7 o'clock next morning. NEW LONDON $ 1 @ —TO— NEW YORK Write or _telephone W. J. Phillips, Agent, New TLondon, Conn. for state- iy3id rooms and information. CHELSEA LINE Fare $1.00 Freight and passenger service direct to and from New Yor! 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Lowest Rates, Beautlful booklet, Itinérary, Tickets, etc. of Bermuda-Atlantic Line. 290 B'way, N. Y. H. WILLIAMS, JR. General Asgt. It} H. C. LONG, Special Agt. F. H. KENYON, Special Agt. Hartford, Conn Jun2ss | muchness. I've even enjoyed the pic- tures recently published of men plow- ing with automobiles. As I looked at them I said to myself: “Now, if we could only hitch a good, lively thun- derbolt and a streak of lightning to our plow, then we WOULD be going some.” And, by Jove, the very next day I found that we had done it! Per- haps not exactly a lightning flash, but something just about as quick and as powerful. Have you ever heard of farming with dynamite? It seems that some desperate brother, tried from long and unavailing struggles with his hard- pan soil which no plow would break up for him, suddenly bethought him- self of the drnamite which he had been using to blow out stumps with. He tried a charge or two. Then he went to town, bought a whole box of the condensed earthquakes and dynamited an acre of his stubbornest subsoil. The result outflushed his rosiest hopes. The land, which had never before pro- duced enough to pay for the labor put on it, suddenly woke up and begat a crop that was the wonder of the neigh- borhood. Other farmers sat up and took notice. Next season saw a run on the nearest dynamite factory which astonished the proprietor, and, when plowing time came, that hard-pan country resolved 1f into a sort of combined earthquake and voleano. For some days landscape and atmosphere ints ingled in a roaring medley of splitting earthquakes and squattering eruptions. Then the dust and debris settled. The astomished subscil found itself torn apart and turned ’tother side up. Instead of remaining a lump- ish and massive stratum, impermeable to root growth, it had been turned into a scrap-h among whose in- numerable inte ces even the softest rootlet could push its exploring way. The success of this somewhat radical experiment has led to further testing of dynamits an aid to the farmer. It has been found that its value is not confined solely to hardpan soils. It has fields of usefulness elsewhere. Especially has it proved a promising helper to the orchardist and tree plant- E: Down in Louisiana, where they raise pecans—if only they can get the trees which they set out to live—one man set over a thousand trees a year ago, using dynamite to make the holes. He reports that the percentage of loss on his young trees (which are among will A the most difficult to set so they live) thus far almost nothing. Georgia peach grower, W. W_ Stave of Mayfield, states that he gains two vears in six by using dynamite. That i3, he gets as much fruit at four years old from a trée planted with dynamite as at six years old from one spaded in. Mrs. John Rawley, an apple orchard owner of Oregon, is so enthuslastic cver the advantages of dynamite that she now has 30 acres of trees, every one planted by its aid. She writes that in November, 1910, she had occa- sion to remove two filler trees seven months after setting. One had been put in a spaded and one in a dyna- mited hole. The spade-set tree had a fine bushy clump of roots about a foot long. The dynamite-set tree had roots going down fully three feet and a great spreading mass of medium and short growth roots and rootlets. The difference between the two, as seen side by side, was convincing. M Rawley has got so she even uses d namite for subsoiling her flower beds. One result ,among others, is that she can now bring hardy peonies into bloom the first season, though hare- tofore they had failed to flower until the second or third yéar. When one stops to think a bit, he can readily see a reason why a tree set in a dynamited hole ought to do better than one set in a spaded exca- vation. The spade removes only what is in the dug-out pit. When the tree is set and this loosened zarth put back on and around the roots, it is in fine shape for root growth—as far as the sides and bottom of the pit, but no farther. The roots run into an almost solid wall of packed soil on every side as soon as they have e2xtended to the limits of the spaded hole. But dyna- mite rives the soil to a greater depth than a spade can profitably reach, and over a wider area Moreover, as water is tha principal plant food, in which all the fertile elements of the soil must be dissolved before they can be ab- sorbed by the roots, the larger the area through which these roots can spread, the greater the amount of plant food which is. brought within their reach. While the use of dynamite for tree planting is vet in somewhat expeari- mental stage, enough has been done already to enable its advocates to de- clare that the four following facts have been actually determined: First—Planting trees with dynamite practically eliminates the loss of voung trees during the first year. Second—Trees c be planted much more rapidly by t dynamite method than by the old method. Third—Trees planted with dynamite come into bearing from one to two years sooner than those planted by the soil method. Fourth—Tress planted by dynamite grow much more rapidly and vield much more heavily than those planted in the old way. Of course, dynamite, being a tremen- dously powerful explosive, nezds to be handled with some care. It is danger- ous stuff to be careless with. So are paris green and Bordeaux mixture and bi-sulphide of carbon and ars2nate of soda and strychnine and rat polson. all of which we farmers use and have to use. We don’t kill ourselves with them, nor are we likely\to with dyna- mite, if we only use |judgment. It doesn’t require a scientifically trained expert to handle it Just a fair appli- cation of a common man's common sense will keep him well back of the safety line. It is being used daily by hundreds of unskilled Ilaborers in Plasting rock, by thousands of farmers in blowing out stumps, by scores of orchardists, including, I am told, the celebrated Hale orchards of Connecti- cut and Georgia, in tting trees and loosening the soil between rows of old or failing trees. This indicates that it is safe for any reasonably careful and intelligent person to use. The E. I Dupont Denemours Powder company, large makers of the explosive, say, as to its safety in handling, that, contra- ry to general belief, it do=s not ex- plode from dropping or any ordinary shock, and will not go off spontaneous- ly. It has to be exploded by detonating a special priming cap, set off with a fuse. At the same time, they add: Orchardists ‘'who have never used ‘namite should be sure to get all sible information from the manu- facturers of the explosive before at- tempting to use it While it is no mere dangerous to use than gun pow- der or gasoline. it is a poor thing for people to fool with ignorantly, because it is very prverfw” EHE FARMER. «Stains? They’re Easily Taken Out,” says Anty Drudge. Mrs. Fidget— ‘Do you know, Anty, I am getting to bea regular crank. I watch every egg-mark or stain that the children make on the napkins and table cloth, and I get so nervous I can’t enjoy my meals.” Anty Drudge—*‘Don’t mind the stains and above all don’t get nervous. Just rub Fels-Naptha soap on the spots, soak in cool or lukewarm water and rub lightly, and your napkins and table-cloths will be spotless.”” The housewife is quite. likely to b judged by the appearance of the wash as it hangs on the line. It is the one part of the housework that is all eye of your neighbors. . “How nice that wash looks’ coveted washday saying. out of doors; all in the is a If you knew—it was either Fels-Naptha soap or too much work that gave the nice look. 'Dru«.:iger.y may give it; Fels-Naptha soap will give it without drudgery. Fels-Naptha makes the clothes clean and pure, because it DISSOLVES every particle of dirt. You first soap the clothes, roll and place them in cool or lukewarm water for half an hour. You then find that only light rubbing is needed to make them pure as driven snow. And it’s as good for every other part * of the household work as for the wash. trial will convince you. A Follow directions on the red and green wrapper. | TOLLAND COUNTY BOLTON Nominations at Republican Caucus— September House Parties. Following is a list of nominations made at the republican caucus held Friday evening of last we Assessor, Cary D. Carpenter; town erk, J. White Sumner; trea: Charles 2 Loomis; first selectman, F. H. Strong; second selectman, Waldo E. Rice; con- stables, S. R. Woodward, A. E. Maneg- gia, John Johnson; board of relief,Wil- liam R. French, A. E. Maneggia; audi- tor, E. A. Sha grand jurors, N, C Maine, W. E. Rice, E. A. Shaw; reg istrar of voters, S. R. Woodward; collector, A. E. Maneggia; school com- ineggia; tree warden, lor- treasurer town deposit . Loomis. Aid Society Meets. The Ladies’ Aid society met at Miss Eldredge's cottage Thursday after- Louis H. Levey and a party nds of Indianapolis are at Mrs. 3 summer home in town. The party made the trip in a tourin Mrs, Eva H. Warfigld entertained a party of friends at her home Tuesday afternoon. F. J. Mahiein and friends of Lester- 2 ks . Y., are spending a few wee home, in this place. ¥ Milburn, who is in a Hartford hospital, ill w typhoid fever, is re- ported to be doing well. School supervisor F. W. the teachers had a teacher: Center s noon. Nearly all of Bolton’ were in Rockville Wedn ing the agricultural fi WILLINGTON Sunday School Picnic Proves a Great Success. Barber and meeting at nolhouse Wednesday after- inhabitants day, attend- The Sunday schol picnic well attended, the day was beautiful and had an enjoyvable time. The good- ies .that are alw: an important ad- junct of such an occasion were all that could be desired. Miss Alice Pratt, superintendent of the primary depart- ment, Supt. Bartlett, Rev. E, W. Dar- row, Mi s Mathews and DeWolfe and others assisted in entertaining the lit- tle peuple—and the day was declared 4 success. Thirty-nine were registercd at Sun- day school Sunday afternoon. People were pleased to meet Mrs, Case, wife of the late Rey. Mr. Weed, who for some time supplfed the Con- gregational churc ford. She is a guest farm. es here and at We at the White SFRING HILL AMiss lda 13. Reynolds has returned from a trip in Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. C. .. Mason are stop- ping at the home of Bradley M. Sears. The heavy frost of last week did but little damage to vegetation on the highest part of Spring Hill, as it is neart 00 feet above tide water. Mi: Gladys Flaherty has returned from a visit in Staten Island, N. Y. Mrs. W. A, Weld played the organ at the church services last Sunday, as Miss Freeman was ill Frank Davis, who has been with his uncle, C. C. Davis, through the spring and summer, has returned to his home Charles Robinson of Palmer, Mass., called on Mr. and Mrs. W. A, Weld last Wednesda Miss May, Storrs has returned from a threz weeks’ visit in Webster, Mass. the ted that It peanut §ports Tsingtau will have reached ©0,000 tons at the end of June, 1911. . ax- 1 tax 4 ~ GILEAD SOUTH WILLINGTON Slow Taxpayers Wake Up—Town Debt Only $1,810--W. C. T. U. Election. The recent effort to collect the un- paid personal taxes in town has result- {ed in the awakening of delinquents to {the fact that they must be paid, and {the list of delinquents has decreased at a rapid rate. | Th following officers were re-elected {at the business meeting cf the W. C. | T. U. last Tuesday evening: President, J. Holman: vice president, s H Brown: secretary, Mrs. lathews; treasurer, Mrs, . Allen; delegates to conven- tion at Meriden, Mrs. Charles H. Brown, Mrs. F. W| Pratt. Annual Town Report. Advance sheets of the annual town Elmer J. Walter | | report show expenses as follows: Alms account, $671.89; bridges, $401.71; highway, $1,077.89; schools, $8,098.76; new town safe, $207.50; sanitary drink- |ing fountain, $549.71. The school account includes: New schoolhouse at $2,479.92 and repairs of $550.15. | The liabilities of the town are given as $6.145.23, ssets of $4,334.58, leavinz an indebtedn of $1,810. A most excellent showing. | Carpenters have begun house for Liucas Safranck. Mrs. Arthur Church and son, Clin- ton, are visiting friends at Jamaica, L. I Thomas Mor O 8 Duckworth have gone to city to work. The following names are on the list building a and Arthur New York “to, be made’ wvote Audi Audi Gaydos, Joseph Kirpeter, Lohse, Medos Labonte, F franck, George V. Smith, Fr. Tyler zand Mrs. Elmer J. Mathews The Sunday school rally day exer- cises have been postponed until the Sunday followinug the dedication of the new church. The motor driven wagon recently purchased by ILouis Schmidt was de- livered to him last Tu lFuneréI of Julius Hills—Ceres’ Night at Grange. The funeral of Julius Hills was held at the home of his daughter, Mr: H. Post, Salurday afternoon. B was in the local cemetery. Maro Miner attended the firemen's 1 celebration in Unionville Wednesday. Last evening was Ceres’ night at Hebron grange, L. A. Clinton of Stor college gave a talk on Growing Corn iin Connecticut. Annie L. Hutchinson and Rot Foote returned to Alfred univer- sity, Alfred, N. Y., Saturday. Mr. and Alrs. Louis Marthyny visited relatives in Springfield recently. Miss Jennie Post of Wayne, Pa., is visiting her cousins at Maplelaw: Ralph Bennett of Ludlow, ‘Mass., visiting his uncle, J. E. Ellis. is New ex- Joseph Gambolati has gone to York for the winter; his family ting rela- HEBRON Rumored Real Estate Sales—Miss Mary Bissell Enters Mt. Holyoke College. Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Lewis were call- ers in town recently. Mrs. Ida Jennings Moulton of Mas- sachusetts gave an entertainment in the Town hall Wednesday evening for the benefit of the Congregational church. : It is reported that the Sjmons Broth- ers have sold their house and store to a purchaser from New York. Mrs. Belle Hildreth of Hartford is visiting her mother, Mrs. Rathbun. Mr. Barrows of Hartford is spending VHE HOLLAND HOUSE, 30th Street and Sth Aveaue Soda craéke’rs'. are extremely sensitive to moisture. Before the advent of Uneeda Biscuit the only persons who ever tasted fresh, crisp soda crackers were the people in the bakeries. s 4 Imagine their trip from bakery to your table; exposed to air and moisture—kept in grocers’boxesand finally in a paper bag on the shelf in your pantry. Could they be the same as they were the day they were baked? Now that we have Uneeda Biscuit—we - have perfectly baked soda crackers —perfectly kept. No moisture can reach them—no con- taminating influ- ences can affect their flavor—their goodness is impris- oned only to be liberated by you for you when you open the package. Alwaysin the moist- ure proof package. Never sold in bulk. S cents a package. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY . his vacation at Miss Caroline Xel-|Frink were recent callers in Willilman- tic. Etta Bissell wa home for a is: rv B ft for Mt. Hol- She 1s staying with her| Miss Mary Bissell le | yvoke Monday to enter college. g Mr. Chamberlain took George Littla | and family to the Rockville fair Wed- | nesday. It is reported that Henry Spaffard has sold his farm to a purchaser from New York. ¥. T. Smith is filling his silo. IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK CITY Where Centers Commercial Activi and the Attractions that Draw Visitors From Every Quarter of the Globe who is very feeble. father, | - ‘and Mrs. F. Hunt are visiting at | Sayms’. Their home is in Pitts- <. Herbert Maynard of | .w London were callers in town re- cently. Miss Ellen Buell and Mrs. Mary i WHERE CENTERS HOTEL LIFE FOR THE BUSINESS MAN, club.like i o FOR THE TOURIST or sight-secker, luxury, comfort and entertainment, after the day's outing. FOR THE FAMILY, home-like environ- ments with seclusion or the opportunity of ex- periencing the fascination of public gatherings.