. Elementary agriculture. Agriculture. COUNTEY EOADS 207 roads from getting out of repair. "A stitcli in time saves nine," and so it is with a shovelful of gravel. A man and a horse and cart kept busy at the gravel pit all through the year are worth many times more in securing good roads than all the "working out" of taxes. The State's Part. Many people are now coming to see that the state ought to keep up at least the main roads as well as build them. This will insure the employment of road engineers, and it will be done in a more permanent manner. Drainage. It is useless


. Elementary agriculture. Agriculture. COUNTEY EOADS 207 roads from getting out of repair. "A stitcli in time saves nine," and so it is with a shovelful of gravel. A man and a horse and cart kept busy at the gravel pit all through the year are worth many times more in securing good roads than all the "working out" of taxes. The State's Part. Many people are now coming to see that the state ought to keep up at least the main roads as well as build them. This will insure the employment of road engineers, and it will be done in a more permanent manner. Drainage. It is useless to build a road without first providing a dry roadbed. Standing water and the grinding of wagon wheels will soon reduce any. FlQ- 104. Gradincj and, draining ar^ essential to good Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nida, William Lewis. Chicago, A. Flanagan Company


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