Removing Stumps

Let me answer the question about saltpeter for removing stumps. Having two large chestnut stumps in a field, I put my trust in the statement that so completely went the rounds of the agricultura! press, and started to the field vvith an auger. I bored fourteen holc8 in one big stump at different depths, some seven, oight, nine and even twelve inehes; plugged in the saltpeter, and in the following spring I set them on fire, but thej would not burn. I read in one paper that after removing the plug in the spring coaloil should be poured into the holes, and then the stump would be consumed in a few minutes. The cnal-oil wagon had just been at the house that day, and I filled the five-gallon c&n wlth the best headlight oil, and to be certain in my experiment, I carried the whole five gallons to the field, and poured into those holes till every drop was out of the can. I was confident now that I shoukl see no more of that stamp. As soon as the match was applied, up went the blaze, scared the horses in the plow team, roared like Niágara, and when the oil was consumed I had simply blaokened the stumps, and left them hard and diT, and no more bnrned than the shade of the lamp by which 1 am writing this experience is affectcd liv the oil within it. Not to be defeated, I had the can refilled and tiicil five gallons more with the same success as before. ïhis is what I know about holes and saltpcter for removing