Hand Book of Explosives

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Excerpt from Hand Book of Explosives: Instructions in the Use of Explosives for Clearing Land, Planting and Cultivating Trees, Drainage, Ditching, Subsoiling and Other Purposes By the prodigal use of labor and man power, lands have been cleared, drained and tilled for many years. Larger areas are yet to be cleared and further improvements to be made in millions of acres in order to supply the ever-increasing demand for food and clothing. Man is too intelligent and valuable for other purposes to have his efforts and energy entirely consumed by the heavy forms of brute drudgery that can be better done by the employment of modern labor savers. His knowledge, intelligence, and energy are much more valuable to himself, the community, and the country at large, when employed in directing the forces which have been placed at his disposal by nature and science. Moreover, it is now practically impossible to develop land by man power alone, because of the great scarcity, at present, of labor. Labor is indeed so scarce, and when, available, so expensive, that it is becoming increasingly difficult to progress in any industrial field. Often even such labor is unavailable as is needed to install labor-saving devices which would effect a saving in the future. In many cases there seems to be no escape from this condition. But in developing land, explosives are always available and the demand for increased amounts can be quickly supplied for the job. No matter how difficult it may be to get men, the work can be done by these modern conservers of man power. They have proven most efficient in doing the classes of work described in this book. They clear the land so that the modern horse and power drawn farm equipment can be used to advantage as they cannot be on poorly cleared lands. Explosives are now included with horses, steam, gasoline, and electricity as a means of saving man power and thereby of saving money. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.