Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-15
PlcRIc ACID DISTRIBUTION, FOR
1928 INFORMATION FOR ALL
COUNTY AGENTS

Q) Three and one half million
pounds of picric acid is available at
Wingate, New Mexico, and the guam
tity we secure depends on our activf-
ties. 1t is to be shipped, first com
first served, to supply the land clear
ing needs of the entire country. TIL
should mean that we can have all ",
need. About three quarters of a mi
lion pounds are now cartridged an
ready for immediate shipment.
~ Distribution will be MAJ
through county agents where coul
agent is employed. Where a coul
has no county agent, farmers desiri
picric acid should communicate d.
ect with John Swenhart, College
Agriculture, Madison, Wisconsin,
information and order blanks.
(3) This picric acid will cost $40
per hundred pounds in carload lot
minimum weight 10000 pounds
picric acid) delivered to any railro
station in Wisconsin. Stop-in tran
privileges are not permitted by til
Interstate Commerce Commission.
"a With each case Goo pound
of picric acid, we will include on
hundred blasting caps. There will
no extra charge where picric acid i
distributed in car lots 100000 pound
Where individual orders are handled
a freight charge will be necessary OF
the caps in addition to the freight O.
the picric. Caps cannot be secured ex-
cept with picric acid. There will b
no reduction in price if caps are no
wanted.
90 Caps cannot be shipped i.
same car with picric acid. They will
be billed and shipped separately, &
few days in advance of the delivery o.
picric acid.
(6) Individual shipments of explo
,sives, even one box of blasting cap
take a minimum freight charge OF
s1OO.
~ Caps or explosives cannot be
shipped by express except under spec
ial conditions for laboratory examina-
ton.
(8) Boxes of caps should not be
divided in distribution to farmers.
90 We suggest that arrangements
be made to assure adequate supply of
fuse at convenient points in the coun
ty.
(10) Orders for less than carload
lots will be delivered by local freight
from convenient carlot shipment.
Special arrangements may be made by
county agents having less than carlot
orders to ship by truck from carload
where conditions warrant.
(11) Individual orders from coun
ties having no county agent will be
shipped local freight from convenient
carload shipping points by the Land
Clearing Office. Those shipments will
be sent freight collect and can be
made only to those stations having a
regular agent employed.
12) Each farmer may order not to
exceed 1000 pounds.
OBJ The picric acid is secured
from surplus war material transferred
by Congress to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture and distribut
ed by law in cooperation with the
Agricultural College of the University
of Wisconsin 1t was made primarily
for war and cost considerably more
than dynamite to manufacture. When
the supply of war picric acid is ex-
hausted, it will be impossible to Sc,
cure additional supplies for land clear
ing at these prices.
14) The picric acid is cartridged
and packed in 100-pound boxes, ready
for immediate use in land clearing.
It is distributed at cost of cartridg-
ing freight, and distribution. This in
cludes drying, cartridging, cartridge
wrappers, paraffin, labor, boxes, box
lining, truckage, freight supervision
and all other charges. No charge is
made for the material and no profit is
allowed. Shipments in carload lots
only are made from New Mexico.
(15) It is the desire that this ex-
plosive be distributed as cheapiy as
possible direct to farmers through reg
ular governmental agencies. 1t should
not be turned over to dealers for dis
tributfon, even though no profit is