RESTORATION OF HIGHWAYS.
R. H. Fuller Tells How Good Roads
Benefit farmers and Others.
There has been an effort to induce
congress to resume road building
where it left off 75 years ago. It is
argued in favbr of this plan that the
rural districts receive a disproportion
ately small share of the receipts from }
federal taxation, and the appropria
tions made for the improvement of
rivers and harbors are citeH by way
of precedent for good road appropria
tions. It. does not seem probable,
however, that the national govern
ment will relieve the states of the
duty of providing good roads, at least
in the near future; and meantime the
states are showing themselves quite
capable of solving the problem. New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut
and New York are the pioneers in the
work of good road construction on a
comprehensive scale. Pennsylvania,
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New Hampshire, Vermont and other
states are falling into line, and it is
only a question of a few years before
every state in the Union will have
joined them.
The general scheme of road im
provement contemplates the construc
tion of macadam or equally service
able roads between the chief points in
each county, so laid out that they will
form a continuous network through
out the state. The less important
roads are to be improved by methods
not so costly. Macadam roads require
an outlay for construction of from
$5,000 to $10,000 a mile. This heavy
initial outlay would be too great a
burden for the scattered population of
the farming regions to bear unaided.
Outside help must be given, and inas
much as good roads increase the pros
perity of the entire state the principle
of state aid has been generally ac
cepted as just. It has been adopted in
various forms by all the states which
have seriously undertaken the im
provement of their roads.
Even the portion of the expense
which falls upon the localities, is usu
ally too great for them to meet by im
mediate direct taxation, and here
again the state may come to their as
sistance by lending them its credit so
as to enable them to borrow money
at a smaller rate of interest than they
would otherwise be forced to pay.
Naturally, where the state helps to
build the roads, their location, con
struction and maintenance must be
under state control through an official
or a state commission. This insures
the laying out of the roads so that
they will form a comprehensive state
system, and their maintenance in a
condition of efficiency after they have
been built.
Another important branch of the
good roads movement is the introduc
tion of wide tires on wagons intended
to carry heavy loads. Narrow tires
are road destroyers, while wide tires
are road makers. The narrow tire
cuts the road into ruts, the wide tire
serves the purpose of a roller in com
pacting and hardening it. Tests have
shown that the same force that is re
quired to move 2,000 pounds on nar
row tires will move on broad tires
2,500 pounds on a macadam road, 2,
482 on a gravel road, 2,500 on a dirt
road and 3,200 on a wet clay road.
Various methods of road improve
ment have been tried with success in
different parts of the country. In Cali
fornia more than 2,500 miles of sandy
highways have been made hard and
smooth by sprinkling them with crude
petroleum, which binds the loose parti
cles of sand together. In Florida phos
phate clay has proved to be excellent
road material.
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Alfalfa Ground.
The alfalfa ground should be put in
good condition. Many plow their
ground early In April, harrowing thor
oughly to make a fine seed-bed, then
sow the alfalfa seed with a broadcast
seeder. Sow plenty of seed, 18 to 20
pounds per acre. A thin stand gives
weeds too good a show while the
young alfalfa plants are becoming
established.
A Female Othello.
An elegantly dressed lady in a hurry
made a sign to a cab. The driver
came up, but when he heard the ad
dress drove off>at a canter, leaving the
lady stupefied with surprise. Asked
by a fellow cabman why he had re
fused to take her he replied: “Why,
she wanted to go to a house in my
6treet, and if my wife had seen her
she would haye skinned me, she is
that jealous!”—II Mondo Umoristico. I
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