Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-01
,epFssIvE PLANTERS WILL CALL In
IypIoSIyFS ypIoS TO AID in PREPARING
mi Al F0R STILL GREATER CROPS OF
n KINDS DYNAMITE and FER
rIIyFRS nj TO GO HAND In HAND.

Third district leads the state
.bo nse of fertilizers. Sumter
pty, of course, leads the district.
T. Indications are that in a few
Rs it will be just as correct TO
that the Third district leads
state in the use of dynamite, and
Spmter, in that respect, also leads
district
artilizers and dynamite-that's
slogan now of up-to-date, pro-
ssiye profitable agriculture.
be last season Sumter broke all
Ords in the use of fertilizers. New
before in the history of the county
there been as many tons Of fer
hers placed on the fields as there
e in 1911.
his year there will also be a heavy
of fertilizers-perhaps not as
lat as last year, and backing up
8 fertilizers will be a more ex-
siye use of dynamite, the prelude
steadily increasing use of the
blOsive in coming years.
is not an unwise or an unsafe
ediction that in some not far dis
i year the Sumter county farmer
10 does not dynamite his fields,
w up his ground every two or
\ Zee years, will be reckoned among
nOn-progressive plodders who
Fe not learned the secrets of scien-
c and successful agriculture.
Interest in the dynamiting of the
lis as a prelude to the raising If
ge crops is steadily expanding in
oFgia. Yesterday, despite the
arp cutting, cold wind, num-
of farmers attended the demon
! ation in this line at the Agricul-
Pal College. Today many more viii
there, Next week, when there will
u additional demonstrations still
pre- will learn how to use the eX-
#CSlVe. Already the fruit growers
ID nut growers of the county have
opped the old methods of plant
r Many thousands of trees will
81 put out around Americus in the
F1l few weeks, and in almost everv
SDance dynamite will be used ia
Vad OF the old-fashioned spade. The
ut and nut growers already fully
PpFeclate the virtues of the high
ploSlyeS as an adjunct to their
lSiness
'He general farmers, the growers
Vo'loh, corn, oats and other crops,
f'e 0een somewhat slower to appre-
o'e Iue virtue of dynamite as an
10 them in the preparation of the
4 OoHo ,o Tor large crops. They are
'Hg mold Of the proposition now,
0'su' taking hold with avidity ana
"' TEST acres will probably be
-"'ill'ed this spring and the re-
ui,S carefully noted. Inasmuch as
mas already been clearly demon
a'su mat dynamiting pays, it is
YO"O'e mat 1913 will find innumer-
h.. s acres loaded down with dyna-
and the surface and bowels of
county disturbed as they have
~, WI 0een disturbed before.
ne purpose of the dynamiting, as
H. ''"'oNStrator pointed out yester-
Lon5 ~, 10 TO break up the ground, to
III all directions and to in that
4 |nr Vuec'ualIy sub-soil it at a min,
anit1 '@pense The process of dyna-
H. simplicity itself An iron
o. triae larger circumference
irir.. 'De round stick of dynamite, il
-br. INTO the earth a distance OF
||onto,., s Ieet The rod is easily AMI
Iowa. eStricated by means of d
Ill., OIL ana hood that goes over the
sboIo ''u rests on the ground. The
7Tbs s, @ Prepared in a few seconds
oDo 'ua'I'ite stick is in two pieces
larger ""', H.. the other about three time,
IL 49, Ine small piece is droppec
With as' oo''om of the hole. A fus,
IN ~ '"p Is dropped on it. runnin;
fan, 1--we the surface of the groun,
asmi. 'u'ues The larger piece of dy
sesr '' 'nen dropped in, so that tn
I aru. ' between the small and tn.
i ns ss sections of the dynamite stick
] Ibrfn.' 'yhamite ', is softly tamped !
tbrog, 'nem together. little cart
igpitsd IN the hole, and the fus
is Ninety seconds later ther
Of ~ p'ulIed explosion, the surfac
coul5 g saPln rises a few inches. On
and ~. S'0pd or sit over the dynamlt
E,a.., ~. suffer beyond a slight lar.
70, a,l'nation shows, though. tha
earth ',eral Ss feet in all directions tn
A cam naS been thoroughly shattere,
sropns e can be easily run through tn
even :, and the earth thrown u,
S.io,s ,Do1sh it had not been possib
'De explosion to thrust Il