THE PROGRESSIVE FAkMER : JUEY 28, 1896.
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CO-OPERATIVE ROAD CONSTRUCTION.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Washington, D. C --Currant thought
and feeling in the United States re
garding the improvement of highways
ia setting steadily toward a recognition
of the common interest of all classes of
mtizflns. whprever located, and of all s
capital, however invested, in good
roads.
The following roporc of Roy Stone,
Special Agent and Engineer of the De
partment of Agriculture, on co opera-
tive road construction, furnishes sev-
eral points of interest.
Heretofore the coot of country roads
has been borne by tho farmers alone,
and no method has been provided
whereby tho pec p!e in towns could con
tribute thereto. These per p'.o are now
becoming thoroughly convinced of
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their interest in country reads, and in
many cases are even more willing than i
the farmers to aid in road improve
ment.
The best pHn for starting an im
provement is that of the local initiative,
or benefit district plan. Country road
laws have been passed in many State?,
but they involve the education of a
whole country before any work can be
begun, but in every county some
neighborhood will be prompt to avail
itself of the opportunity to secure road
improvement upon contributing a por
tion toward its cost.
In some States towns have been au
thorized to i?sua bonds for roud im
provement and have done eo , success
fully, but have necessarily paia a higher
rate of interest than a county or State
ivou'd do.
The bent fi , district, being self defined
and of absolutely identical interest,
forms the ideal unit for initiating road
construction. Any larger district as a
town or county, containing a number
of roads, is liable to be divided by Icc-d
interests and jealousies, but the users
of any one road can have no cause for
division of interest.
Toe benefiD district includes, without
question, all the users of the section of
road in question, and the extent cf
their individual use of the road can be
approximately ascertained, and when
ascertained forms the most fqiitable
possible basis for the division of the
local share of the cost.
The constantly increasing use cf
county roads by the city people or for
their benefit, developes acd demon
strates a community of interest on the
part of the citizens. The common in
terest of all capital in the subject in
well expressed by the following utter
ance of the Chamber cf Commerce of
the State of New York. Tne move
ment for good roads deeply concerns
every commercial and financial interest
in the land. W e are handicapp d in
all the markets of the world oy an
enormcu3 waste cf labor in the pri
mary transportation cf our products
and manufactures, while our home
markets are restricted by difficulties
in rural distribution which not infre
quently cleg all the channels of trans
portation, trade and finance."
The community of interest in the
subject being recognized, methods for
co operation in roads construction and j
the proper distribution of the cost :
thereof, become tho ruiing question in
the discussion of highway improve
ment. Tha most notable and extended co
operative work has been done in New
Jersey, under the Scats aid law of 1891
Under this law the property owners
along any line of road are assessed lu
per cent, of tho cost, and the county is
compelled to furnish the remainder and
to construct the road. The law has
been so effective that the appropriation
has been annually increased and the
demand for construction under it has
many times exceeded the funds avail
able. 1 5 has, moreover, created com
petition for the benefits of State ex
penditure, and in that way ha8 pro
moted discussion and education in re
gard to road improvement more rapid
ly than any other system.
Connecticut haa taken up the co
operative method upon the scale of an
equal distribution between the State,
county, and the district. The towns in
New England having complete govern
ment, the policy of the Massachusetts
State Road Commission has been to
place all contracts for road construe
tion in the hands of the town authori
ties, to be executed by town officials.
The effect of this plan has been excel
lent. Whatever profit may be derived
from the construction becomes a pub
lie fund instead of going to a private
contractor, and the officials become
thoroughly trained in road construe
tion under the supervision of the State
engineering force.
The State of Rhode Island has also
fallen into line for co operation, but
included with the State only towns and
cities, leaving out the counties and
leaves the division of the cost to be
prescribed by the General Assembly of
the State. The State, moreover, un
dertakaa to build sample roads, not ex
ceeding one half mile in length, in any
town, as an educator to its citizens, and
! the towns are liable to the State for
one-quarter part of the expense of con
struction. In the legislation pending in other
Stites the principal feature is the en
deavor to perfect the co operative sys
tem, and in this the States of New York
and Virginia are conspicuously leading
The Assembly of the State of Now
York having in the spring of ISiU sent
a strong cammiitte to sSudy the Naw
Jersey road system, passed almost
unanimously an act tp provide for
tho construction of roads by local as
j eesamoni, county and State aid. Sec
purvey and estimate of cost of local
road.-; subsequent petition of residents
of benefit district.
Oa presentation to the board of
supervisors of any county of a petition
signed by the owners of not less than
one third of the lands bordering on any
section of road already established or
proposed to be established in such
county atking for a survey and esti
mate of the cost of building or re build
ing puc'i road in a substantial and per
manent manner either of stone or
gravel as prescribed in &uch petition,
such board of supervisors shall cau--e
such survey and estimate to be made
for the information of such petitioners
and shall forward a ccpy thereof to
theScite Engineer. Whenever there
after tho petitioners shall present to
such board of supervisors a map or de
ecription of the lands which, in their
cp'nion will be directiy benefited by
the cons.ruction or improvement of
such road, together with a written re
quest of tho owners of three fifths of
such lands that all tho lands so bene
li cd and the personal property in such
district be assessed in proportion to the
bent tits conferred for such construction
or improvement, to tho amount of one
third of the total cost thereof, such
board of supervisors shall cause such
roads to be constructed or improved.
Such lands so mapped or described
shall be known a9 the benefit district
cf the said section of road. But when
ever the original petition in any case
shall ect forth that the area to be bene
fitod by the road is peculiarly restricted
by the proximity of other roads or by
other circumstances, an examination
and report shall be m;de by the super
vi?cr cf the town and the surveyor of
the road, and if it appears thereby that
?uch area is less than two square miles
for e:.ch mile of road to be built, then
the proportion of cost required to be
paid by the benttii district shall be
dim nished at tho rate of 3 per cent,
cf the whole cost for the firet 100 acres
of such deficiency and 3 per cent, for
ecn additional 100 t.cres of such de
lieiency, but shall in no case be loss
than one tenth of the whole, atd the
balance of the cost cf such construction
shall be equally borne by the county
and S:ate.
Thi provision d:fTrs from the New
Jersey law in extending tho local as
sessment lo cover not merely the abut
ting lands, but, as nearly as can bo as
certained, all the lands benefited by
the construction of the particular road
in question, and in increasing the total
ioc:i ass?ssment to one third instead of
one tenth the cost cf the road, making
exception, however, in cises where
benefits are particularly restricted by
the proximity of other roads cr by
other circumstances.
Wherever counties are able to decide
upon a highway system and a general
and extended provision of funds by
bonds or otherwise for construction,
they will be able to secure State aid
without the machinery and complica
tians of a local initiative. Wenever
the county fails to do this, any town
in th9 county may initiate read im
provement for the whole town, or for
any portion cf it, and receive the me-
dieum of State aid; but wheie county
and town both fail, by reason of local
jealousies or lack of interest, to pro
vide for improvements, any enterpris
ing neighborhood may proceed at onct
to organize its benefis district and have
its road constructed.
The plan under consideration in Vir
ginia, as formulated by the Scate Road
Improvement Association, limits the
locjd charge for the entire benefit dis
trict to 10 per cent, and the State con
tribution to 25 per cent. , leaving upon
the county 05 per cent, of the cost ; but
it does not, as in New York and New
Jersey compel the county to construct
the road upon application, unless it
has the funds available for doing so or
decides by a vote of three-filths of the
free holders to raise them by the issu
ance of bonds.
Both New York and Virginia provide
for distributing the local charge over a
term of years at the individual option
of the payers. The effect of this dis
tribution over five years in the Vir
ginia plan and ten years in the New
York plan, diminishes the actual tax
for the improvement, so that it will be
but little felt
Remember that a paper run at the
cost of The Progressive Farmer cannot
be published on credit.
LACK OF AGRICULTURAL REP
RESENTATION.
Correspondence of the Progre? slve Farmer.
Oa looking over a list of 356 mem
bers of Congress who comprise the
pns?nt lower house, giving their oc
cupations opposite their names. I find
that 230 are lawyers, 33 farmers and
planters, 41 bankers and capitalists,
and the balance various other denomi
nations. Oi the 70,000,000 of people depend
ing entirely upon agricultural pvo
ducts, not only to supply them v-ith
food, but to uphold and run the gov
eminent itself, besides enabling public
and private enter prijoa of every do
scription to start and continue a busi
ness existence, only 33 representatives
are in Congress to look directly after
such a vital and colossal interest ! The
great money centers where roost those
harpiep, who, prey and fatten upon
agricultural toil and sweat, are repro
sented by -11 blood fcu:kcr3 to help
drain the life blood from tho wins of
the delvers of mother earth. Forty
one ereoJv plutocrats, who fiil their
coffers by spoliation of the farmers,
while the latter have only 33 to oppose
uiraiost these alone with 230 lawyers
and others not in harmony with" them !
No wonder that farming products have
reached such a low ebb and farmers
are 11 ;eced right and left, and tho work
of their hands brought btlow the cost
of production. It U the story of the
spider and the lly over again. Out cf
50 men to legislate for us, who hao the
custody of the well being of tho people
at their disposal, oniy 33 represent the
life giving power of the land. Oat of
a body of 350 men, it ij impossible for
only 33 cut of a special class, repra
sentiug millions of wtaltii makers (pro
ducing wealth for all other elapses but
themselves) to attend to tho interests
of agriculture against such an over
whelmingly antagonistic mnjority, for,
say what you will, this majority is
mainly in sympathy with capitalistic
interests in preference to farming in
terests, as tho records of Congress
amply prove. Two hundred and thirty
six lawyers and 41 bankers, represent
mg mostly the money power, can and
do legislate to make tho products cf
agriculture subservient to and pay
tribute, at a ruinous rate, to all those
corporations and industries which
lliurish til of the tillers of the soil,
who, with only 33 men to represent
them at the N tional Capital, ere ut
tcrly powerless to pro:eco the interests J
they represent against such a hord of
opp.ocmg forces.
The colonists had hardly a greater
cause to complain of for lack of rep
rescntation, culminating in the Dt cla
ration of Indeprndeuc, thn tho farm
ers now have, and their iff orts in this
direction should not cease until they
obtain a majority in too hallo
of Congress. Corruption is rank and
runs not at every electtou and in legis
lativc assemblies after the successful
nominees have taken the oath of offije
all to the detriment of tho farmers
who have chostu men to represent
them who have no mtentiju of fulti.il
ing their binding (?) oaths. Tho spec
tacle of presidential candidates put
into tho hands cf a political bos, a
trickster who, with hi3 ' barrel," runs
his lock jiwed candidate for his own
p2rscnal gain, is the most disgraceful
and humiliating feature of American
pcli'ics, and disgusting to every man
possessed of ordinary t-easibilities.
The candidate thus elected becomes tho
mere obedient tool of the boss who was
the means of electing him, and after
inauguration, can be blackmailed to
any extent his Warwick sees fie to ex
act. In fact, he is a mortgaged presi
dent entirely in the hands of his mort
gagor, who is grunted all the patronp.ge
he wants to place his minions in cflie
with the pick of the cabinet for him
self, and to have measures eaacced to
pay him many fold over tho thou
sands ho haa expended in making a
president. That such a state of things
shuold ezist m the "grandest govern
ment on the globe P And this system
of bosses is not confined to nominating
and electing men to the most exalted
positions in the girt of the people, but
it permeates every State, county and
precinct, and until the voters free
themselves from such a bondage to
bosses, to whom they submit like sheep
driven to tho shambles, they will.never
get beyond a blind political serfdom.
About the greatest obstacle the peo
ple have to contend with is tho blind
worship of precedents by the law
makers. A law, or custom, mouldy
and mildewed, with the dry-rot of an
tiquicy, is enough, of itself, it seems,
to antagonise any reform that contem
plates encroachments upon this crys
tallized marplot. For this reason that
''sacred constitution" will never be
come a tradition for the investigation
of some literary paleontologist in the
laurentian depths of effete fossilized
statutes, but, with amaranthine immu
tability, will retain its youthful vigor
and freshness to exert a baneful influ
ence, for ever and a day, although it
has ceased to meet the needs of the
people and the growth and changing
conditions of our civilization in various
respects. There will be nothing done
until precedent worship of time worn
institutions become obsolete ; until even
that "sacredly hallowed" instrument,
the Constitution, is infringed upon and
expunged of clauses which no longer
suit present times. Above all, let the
farmers get a majority, which thoy
surely can if they use the power they
possess, and then we may expect some
inroads into tho pre adamite institu
tions which now so hamper and ob
struct their political and material well
be in g-
Ncthing shows more plainly the aph
a'.hy cf tho farming cla?s to their wel
fare than their remarkable scantiness
of Congress. Tuey ccmplain and
clamor loud enough, yet submit; they
know th cause of their grievances,
yet they fail to apply the remedy. The
great trouble with the farmers consists
in not uniting upon a basis of mutual
protection outside of party lince.
While all the other industries are uni
ted in a solid phalanx to protect their
interests, tho farming class no sooner
make an c IT jrt and get under a little
headway that they disband organiz v
ti :.n after organization and split up
into fragments in conscq ion30 of poli
tial discord arising out of old party
fealty proclivities thirsting for ascen
dor.cy.
Until tho agricultural classes are
arcu?ed to the vast importance of be
ing represented by a majority in Con.
gre.r- and stop sending men to repre
s?nt them who are not in touch with
them, they will always be hewers of
wood and drawers of water to the
cl.ffses wlrch thrive and become "uris-tiXTa-M1'
by their blind supinencss. So
long as they remain in a Hip Van Win
kiftlecp of careless ind lTerenee to
usi tho power they pes ess, so lorg
will they be the helpless victims of
plutocratic greed that buys up National
conventions and controls parties for
tho sole purpose of having special leg
islative enactments passed for their
sordid benefit. In short, until tho far
mera are adequately represented, they
are doomed to tho slavery cf their
tiead mill existence
' Th tl nil n un'r :is-ir. to mix! fr.t.
The Ki";t ikt-iiiiu itt :ict L tni)."
U. U (iWYNN
COMPETITIVE. EXAMINATION.
For a Scholarship in Bingham Fc-ool, to
be Held in HaleJgri, August 15th.
Tae fodowh g letter from Mcj Bmg
hrm, Principal of Hiugbam School, to
11 sn. Marion Bmler. explains itself:
Senator iiutltrDtar Sir. We arc
offering 11 free scholai ships, covering
r-.iif.ion, board, )i dgtntr. Hhtd (for
which othf rs pay u? U50 a year), one
to each Senator, to bo chcs?n from tre
S:ato at large or from any district
which he niy prefer, and one to be
chctvn by each Congressman from hi
own district. Tno recipients of ths
scholarships ha'tl be attentive to duty,
snail give U3 no trouble, thail bo pbys
ica'dy sound, and sha'l be chosen by a
competitive examination on English
grammar, spelling, aritnmeuc, md the
geography and h story of the U ailed
Slates. Tho examinat ion shall be held
on the 15th of August, at such place
and before such committee as either ct
the Senators may select for his ap
poiatee, or an the Congressman of en
di-tnet may sou ct for his, tho scholar
ship in each case being awarded to the
applicant who stands the bestexsmina
at ion. In cae there ehould be any
scholarships m filled, applicants for
such vacanciro may stand the exam
ination in AeheviUe on August 20 h.
br fore the teachers of B-.ngnam School.
Wo &s j ou to be kind enough to co
operate with us in this matter by m?k
iog the eff r known (in any way you
may think best) to such youog men as
may wih to compete for one of the
8Choiare-hipR.
Yours truly,
II Bingham
Pursuant to the above proposition
made by M- j r B-.ngham, thpre will be
held in the court house at RUeighat
12 o'clock ou August 15-,h, a competi
tive examination for one of the free
scholarships for the State at large.
Those desiring to stand the examina
tion will please notify Prof. John Gra
ham R-deway, N. C, who will be
chairman of tho examining board, cf
their intention," on or before the 10th
of August. Marion Butler
There is good reason for the almost
universal practice arnorg farmers of
putting the manure mainly on the crops
that require thorough cultivation. It
ia not only because such crops need
rich soil to pay for the exra labor
needed to grow them, but nil the ma
nure applied is made more effective by
ultivation This is miinly done by
loosening the soil and imprisoning
warm air in it. This air contains oxy
gen which acts on ail vegetable or ani
mal matters in the soil, setting free
their carbonaceous and nitrogenous
elements.
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One H graded Holstein Ball Calf
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PERFECT CREAM SEPARATOR. I
SENO FOR CIRCULARS.
EOSEiSf PRITflliUD HFi. CO., CI.lT0, IYA.
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Lands! Lands! Lands!
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Alcng the Line cf tho
Seaboard o
Air Line,
The Great Through Route
To and from tho
SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST,
Convenient to Eany Markets.
THE FINEST FRUIT AND AGRI
CULTURAL LNDS IN THE
SUTHERM STATES.
S3 OQ to SiO.co per lore.
Peculiarly Adapted to Raising
EARLY FRUITS,
Poaches, Gropep, Plums, Peare,
Applep, Ecc.
EARLY VEGETABLES,
Cabbages, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Tur
nipp, E:c.
GRAIN,
Corn, Wheat. Oatf, Rye, Etc.
Tctecco, COTTON, tees.
Surrounded by
unshins,
Health,
and Plenty
CHOICE
Hill and FsctorylSites,
With Abundance o?
"Vv aiter Power.
For Particulars, Prices of Lands and
Illustrated Pamphlet, write to
GEO. L. RHODES,
General Agent Seaboard Air Line,
PORTS MOUTH, Va,
E. ST. JOHN.
Vice Pres't and Gen'l Mgr.
H. W. B. GLOVER,
Traffic Manager.
T. .X. ANDERSON,
Gen1! Pctss'r iigeiit.
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION
Is ably discussed in a pamphlet entitled
h Remedy for the Panic,
BY
BRYAN TYSON,
The pamphlet is one of the very best that can
be written on the Financial Question It give
some inner detail3 relaiivr to rr a;ters at Wash
ington. With a view or unciiring a lartre circu
lation, tLe price has been pi:.ced very low,
TEN CENTS PER COPY.
Postage one cent for a single copy, which mnst
be remitted. I'hree or more copies to one ad
dress, at the above price, will be sent postpaid.
No other deduction for any number, however
large, can be made, fcend all orders to
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
(1867) Ralei2h. N-O.
A New Southern Journal.
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Norfolk, Va., contains mucb information of
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