Randolph County Farmers Order Explosive Through Extension Service, Sept. 25, 1924

Fifty-two farmers, members of the Randolph County Farm Bureau, have ordered 17,350 pounds of the new Government explosive, pyrotol, for blowing stumps and rocks on 365 acres. This is the first order received by the extension division of the State College for this cheap explosive.

From page 4 of the Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., Sept. 25, 1924. Pyrotol was made from military surplus following World War I, and consisted of smokeless powder, sodium nitrate and nitroglycerin dynamite.

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