Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1904 — Receipt of Value to Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Receipt of Value to Farmers.

The Scientific America n recco. mends the following method of gett ing rid of stumps: In ths autumn bore a hole one or two inches in diameter, according to the girth of the stump vertically in the center of the latter, and about eighteen inches deep. Put into it one ouncs of salt, peter; fill the hole with water and plug up close. In the ensuing spring take out the plug and pour in about one-half gallon of kercsene oil and ignite it. The stump will burn away without blazing to the very extremities of ths roots, leaving nothing but ashes,