Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1912 — TO Try Dynamite on Two-Acre Field of Hardpan. [ARTICLE]

TO Try Dynamite on Two-Acre Field of Hardpan.

C. B. Jones, a wealthy farmer and business man of Noblesville, has an idea which he is going to try out and which he believes will be a benefit to the farmers of Indiana. While dynamite has been used extensively in this state for many years to blow up stumps, its use for breaking up hardpan and loosening the ground for several feet below the surface is a pet scheme of Mr. Jones Just now. In order to prove or disprove the assertion of a representative of a powder company made at a convention of hardware men which Mr. Jones attended recently, he is planning to treat a two-acre field in this Way. It is claimed that the use of dynamite on many fields would be a paying investment and it. is said to cost less than $25 liter acre. The experiment of Mr. Jones will be watched with interest by the farmers of the state. He is inclined to believe that the scheme will prove successful. The body of Bryan I.egg, who was drowned at Monticello Sunday, had not been recovered at last reports. The Legg boy, with two companions, had gone to the river. His two companions were in the water swimming and the Legg boy was stripped wading along the shore, as he could not swim. He was talking to his chums and in wading backwards stepped off the sandbar into water twenty feet deep. One of his companions tried to rescue him, but Legg caught him by the ear and he was forced to break away, but expected to catch the drowning boy as he came to the surface again, but the body remained under the water. The current of the river at that point is quite swift and taxes the abilities of the best swimmerg; • Let your wants be known through out classified column.