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GOOD ROADS SPECIAL. Il: Tf i r ; ; t ... - . w -? tfr . , -rr A Title Registered In U. a Patent Office. A Farm and Home Weekly foe. the CaroVmas, Virginia Tennessee; and Georgia. " P P VcL XXIV. Ho. 29. RALEIGH. N. C AUGUST 26, 1S03. V7ee!dy: $1 a Yeir You Can imp rove Your Road and It i Will Pay You. ft-- 1; -. V '.f A BKA.UTTFUL ROAD OF MACADAM. This Road. Built of Crushed Stone, 1 Generally Regarded as the Best Type, and Should be Much More Common. T IS A VERY exceptional neighborhood in the South that does not need better roads, and it is an equally exceptional comrnuniry that cannot have better roads. While many tections cannot hope to have the best roads macadam or crave! -for a lonr tim tn mm, thr is no excuse for any locality allowing its roads to remain positively and per manently! bad. ,:.;,,..:.. ...-.........-. , ... A good road is a (I) hard, (2) smooth road, (3) free from heavy grades. Any road which answers to these requirements will insure easy and quick travelling, and permit of the hauling of large loads and that a all that is re quired of a road. Of course, the best road is the hardest and smoothest one, the macadam road being superior to the gravel road, and the gravel road to the earth road; but remember that even the earth road need not be bad. This is the thing we wish this Good Roads Special to say to every man who reads it : " There is a way for yb u to improve the road over which you travel, and it will pay you to do it" If we can only get bur readers to realize this fact, we believe that they will not be content to longer waste the strength of their teams, their own time and their own money by dragging over rocks, pulling through 'deep sand, jolting across ditches, splashing about in mud- holes, and climbing steep hills, i Every road cannot be macadamized, or ? even graveled; but many more could be than are. Few bond issues for good . roads j in our teriitory have been bad investments," while the cases in which mey woddjenirjo tax ordinary farmer would have to pay to, build and maintain stone roads, in any moderately settled community, is much smaller than the tax he now pays to bad roads in the increased cost of his hauling. Over a large section ; of the South sand-clay roads could be built at a very small cost, indeed, com pared to what they would be worth to the communities through which they ; run. Thousands and thousands of ' miles of earth roads could be redeemed from their chronic state of badness by, tbe persistent use of the split-log road 1 drag, and the cost of doing the work Would be so small that no one would . feel itl And everywhere that there is a bad road, it could be improved if the men who work it woiild simpjy remember' that the surface bf:therrbad should always be kept smooth and free from obstructions, and that the first, thing to do with the water that falls on a road is to get it off and away. Ev- : ery road, macadam, gravel, sand-clay, or what-not,: should slope '. .from . the ; ; t center to the sides so that the water may have an .unobstructed ' way to getoC, I -of it; and every ditch, tile or culvert should be made to carry the water away " V. vu'i"',? 'lin1 yr;"'1 .U fii'-f" :.'t c'r.'-r' i l i . t . Ji . 1 4 t m I - 1 1 j A GRAVEL ROAD NEAR AUGUSTA. GA. This Is Almost as God as Macadam, and When Gravel Beds are Near, It Can be Built for Much Less. - - from the road just as soon as possible. The great question in road-making is drainage. A properly) drained roadway made of almost anything except pure sand can be kept in good INDEX TO THIS ISSUE. 8 Corn Breeding, W. F. Massey . . . Four Little Preachments About Better Roads, . .-V" .r-.;. . . ':;- $500 More a Year Farming : By Keep ing a Winter Cover Crop on the Soil 3 How a Bond Issue Will Help, J. H. Pratt 10 Just a Little Bit of. Eden, Mrs. J. .Mna- say Patterson . . . v . r . . , - . ; . 6 Progress in Dairying, John W. Robinson 11 Three States Report Three Ways of Mak '. ., ing Good Roads, . ih - r ? ; 9 "he Country Woman's interest in Better Roads . -.v,,:,-. . 7 Vv'aat to Do for The Dirt Roads, J. H. ratL . . . . . . . . . . i 4 .. tit1; .O- I vfrW v. ri'.co n- ff(z-z s - - n W P" Si- shape most of the time. Tjhis is what the road-drag does smooths and hardens the sur face of the road , so that the water will run off of instead of soaking into it. And it is so easy to make, so easy to use, so much needed and so little utiliz ed I , ; When j there are so many ways of making better roads and when it will pay so well to J make them, is it not inex cusable for the Southern farm ers' to continue - to pay the enormous tribute the present wretched lines of 3 travel and transportation extort from them? Let us repeat: - You can improve your road the road over which you must ride and drive and haul and it will ; pay you to had out how best to ao tms, ana tnen r n 1 , A S ND-CLAYi ROAD IN" RICHLAND COUNTY. S. C. i' This Road Was Built at a Cost of Lsa Than $400 a Mile, and Good Sand-Clay RoadsJIIave Been Built lor Even Less. , J .tu; .."'J'!? do it.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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