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PASTURE AND FENCING SPECIAL NEXT WEi,
Vol. XXXV. No. 32.
EASTERN EDITION
A Farm and Home Weekly for
The Garolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1920
$1 a Year; 5c a Copy
THE FARMER, HIS ROAD AND MOTOR
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F IT were not that urp arA rfovAlnnincr r ranirilv alnnor nthfr lines of
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agriculture, this might be called the good country roads era. It
be called the motor transportation era for the
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farmer.
Roads and automobiles, trucks, trailers these have made of some
farms modern commercial institutions. Others are as yet untouched.
Two big needs are with us. The first of these is more good roads
and better maintenance systems. There are counties that have not yet
grasped the fact that good roads lead to prosperity; that the develop
ment of a farming country is as fast as its roads; that every egg, every
pound of butter, every bushel of corn, every bale of cotton must find its
way to market over bids good or bad, economically or expensively,
profitably or at a losSnhat community life, education, social advance-'
met, breadth of vision, travel into a community over good roads.
The people in these counties will soon elect commissioners or super
visors who wil remedy tie defect. There are counties, many of them,
that have built main highways, leaving the isolated communities to
build their way out, Thirfhe communities will do.
There are counties that have spent thousands of dollars in build
ing dirt roads, yet a hard winter leaves the farmers cut off from town
for days, sometimes weeks. 1 Other counties have spent many thousands
ffiore for graretar rock roads and left them without a binding surface
material, only to find that in five or six years their roads had "fraz
zled" washed and blown away until only the bed of large, jagged
rocks remained. From these things we are learning, and most of the
gravel roads in the future will be properly surfaced, and adequate pro
vision will be made for maintaining dirt roads.
The second need is for the farmers to use the roads more. There may
be some farmers living by the side of a broad and good road, .whose
houses are still unpainted, whose farms are still backward, whose bank
accounts are still negative, who do not sell a pound more of anything
than they did when their road was a narrow, winding, rutted, muddy
wagon way, but there are not many of . them. There are many other
farmers, the most of them in fact, who do not use their roads often i j
enough; not often enough in visiting their neighbors, nor in attending jj
church or the community center meeting, not enough in riding purely
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produce to town. To be a money maker a farmer must seJJr produce,
and big profits can only come from a big volume of tMs. -
It is when considerable quantities of produce ar e lo be soldihat the
automobile and truck begin to pay realVdividebds. They tfie saye
man and horse time and put the produce on the -market quickly In
good condition, and as often as necery. Market day can! be' made
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