The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-10-20

| HSuI"ood anu small StuH enough to
keep a strong fire. Don't sit down,
you have your hands full if that lazy
Fltz Vanderlyn comes over here TO
tell about that new kind of striped.
handle broom corn he is going to
raise, give him this extra hand-spike
and beg OF him to help You a little,
and sbegin in hurry be will soon
leave. But" the reader will saw,
why all this haste ?" The question
is quite pertinent. l have observed
that peopleThink if they simply light
up, that is all there is of 1t; they can
sit down and smoke. or even take a
nap. The fact is there Is hardly any
work that can be hurried to such an
extent as stump burning. l have
known men TO burn on the same
stumps three weeks; and today l
finished small lot of seventy five.
| worked two men on them, but we
had qnite untavorable, wet weather.
We began to take out small stumps
in eight hours after lighting and
ceased firing just twenty-six hours
alter starting the first fire. think |
can burn my next lot in about twenty
hours, but never let a stump slack
after you once fire it, if you do you
lose time very badly; by hard and
continuous firing the sand becomes
intensely hot and the stump burns
very rapidly let your fire 90 down.
which it will do very quickly, and ali
Goals and this sand is ready to absorb
that much heat again before it be-
comes effective. hardly ever burn
clear through the sap on the opposite
side, | find it does not pay. AS soon
as the stump shows, by jarring on it
with The emu of your hand spike, that
1t is weak, then stop firing on it, and
II You pull the earth away from the
back side aud cut a few good sharp
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then put it into another stump hole
that is not going fast enough and you
will soon be rid OF them. When you
have burned them all in this manner
you are ready to begin taking out,
proceed as directed tor the one
stump, and then taking your mule
throw chain round the top of the
stump, after it has been cut until it
is weak, jerk it out and take it just
where you want it before you unhitch
from it. After taking them out take
hoe and stand in the hole and fill it
in, you thus pack the dirt in ana pull
it off of the collar roots near the
surface; as you reach the ends OF
these raise them with lever and
either tear them out or cut them off
deep enough for the plow. You are
now ready to rake off the ground,
burn the trash, and commence break
ing. There are many who have
stumps in their groves. The piece |
have just finished was set four years
ago. l did not scorch one Leaf. Pro-
ceed as directed, but dig Oh the side
opposite the tree instead OF logs cut
with a saw blocks twenty inches long
from good large trees. Spit these
blocks through the center in halves
after you have the stump thoroughly
warmed and beginning to burn with
a small fire, put one OF these blocks
fiat side to the stump and lire inside
it, it will not blaze; ii d tree stands
very close, if l.rge one, build a
screen Of light cypress boards or
lumber, if a small tree turn barrel
over it, it will be all right. 1t is
worth Sl5 per acre to stump, fill and
clean off i'll first class shape as de-
scribed. Z. +. d.
Arca0e Gro0e. Na.