The diamond drill., 1922-02-24
TALKS LAND CLEARING
Larry Livingston Is Enthusiastic Over
Prospects In Upper Peninsula

ana MdStOuOn TOWNSHIPS are unfOr-
tunate that they didn't have an oppor.
tunity TO have Mr.. Livingston meet
their farmers, for he can tell farm
er more about the value of a cleared
acre and drive its Importance home
harder than any man in the business
/ Mr.. Livingston with his assistant
Mr.. McAdam, boarded the train at Mar
quette last Monday. expecting 10 get
TO Sagola about 9:l5 and thence go TO
Mansfield to hold~a meeting at School
No. 2. From there he was to come
TO Crystal Falls and in the evening he
was 10 meet with the farmers at the
Buck Lake school.
After sitting In the coach al the
Marquette station for nearly an hour
! the brakeman Informed him that the
train wouldn't make connections az
Champion for Sagola The reason was
the big snow storm that had blocked
the roads and delayed traffic.
SO, Mr.. Livingston had TO cancel his
meeting for that day. He came to
Crystal Falls that evening intending
to hold meeting at Amasa on Tues
day afternoon, but the roads were
blocked and SO the meeting there had
TO be abolished
Mr.. Livingston found time to talk
land clearing with many OF our people
| lie said that the powder manufactur-
ers are getting out new explosive
which is 10 make powder cheaper 10
the land clearer than II has ever been
demonstrated yet but IL is thought that
there will be sufficient OF IL on the
market when the spring opens TO give
II a good test before the stun gets on
TO the general market. Mr.. Liyings-
ton isn't making any claims for this
new explosive. After he tries II out
ne will have something 10 say. The
DuPonts are the only ones having
powder of this grade on the market
now but the Hercules and others are
getting ready 10 produce IT,
Mr.. Livingston grew eloquent in
talking about the cleared acre" He
says that the farmer doesn't realize the
value OF the cleared acre until IL is put
TO him on a producing basis. He must
be shown how much more valuable an
acre cleared of stumps is and what
that acre adds to his farm before he
realizes the value Of the work that is
being done by the land clearing de-
partment OF the College.
"Once you get the farmer TO see its
value" said Mr. Livingston, "You
can't hold him back. They will put
every effort into getting their land
cleared and their Increased earning
power with each added acre more than
pays for their clearing work
"Over in Wisconsin this cleared
acre idea had caught on with the
lbankers and the most enthusiastic at
tendants we have at the land claring
meetings are the bankers of the com
munity. The up-to-date banker real
ICES that every acre cleared is an add
ed asset 10 his bank. The farmer
with the cleared acre is so much better
of as a loan risk than with the land
in stumps that many land agents and
holders OF mortgages are insisting that
their clients clear land each year. The
Wisconsin banks don't hesitate TO loan
money for land clearing. even though
the applicant isn't loaned 10 for any
other purpose"
IL is MIR. Liyingston's intention 10
cover the county with meetings this
week and next summer land schools
will be held in several parts of the
county. providing the county board
will provide the small amount neces.
sary 10 insure the schools expenses
These schools are OF one day duration
and about twenty people are carried
along. One section will handle the
puller. another the piler, another the
/ dynamite. etc. etc.
! A farmer taking the course will be
given ticket and assigned 10 one
division-say it's the stump pulIer
whore he will. work several hours un-
der the direction OF an expert manager
/ His ticket will be okhed there and h.
will be sent 10 another division. say
Il the plitI NueIt ne viii Wblh htNtid'
hours under another expert. Then
he win be transferred to the blasting
division and so on until all OF the DIFF
ferent steps in clearing have been
tried by the farmer under expert di-
rectIon He will then be given a Ger
tihcate from the school
The school will cost the county S17s
per day Mr.. Livingston and his as
sIstant are paid by the College and
their expenses are not figured into
this sum ~ all. The crew of about
twenty assistants mus; 20 paid end al
80 the exnenee 0f moving and locating
4 the machinery. The railroads are
transporting the equipment free o.
charge furnishing car for the ap
paratus 20 be hauled about upnn
The fare OF the operatives must be