An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 Book II. TRESERVATION AND REPAIR OF ROADS. 605 of the gate-ke
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 Book II. TRESERVATION AND REPAIR OF ROADS. 605 of the gate-keeper and those passing through. After this light had remained between and tliree years, it was taken down, as being too brilliant and as having frightened some horses; but it might surely have been softened, so as to be retained. Where there are two gates, as in various examples, a lamp post is very properly placed between . them, wliich thus answers all the purposes of the cupola and triple lamp at Edgeware. Sect. VI. Preservation arid Repair of Roads. 3727. The preservation of a road depends in a great measure on the description of ma- chines and animals which pass over it, and on keeping it dry and free from dust and mud. The repair of a road should commence immediately after it is finished, and consists in obliterating ruts the moment they appear, filling up any hollows, breaking any loose stonesj and correcting any other defect. After cleaning and this sort of repair have gone on hand in hand for a longer or shorter period, according to the nature of the materials and traffic on the road, a thorough repair or surface-renewal, by a coating of metal of three or more inches in thickness over the whole of the road, may be required. 3728. To preserve a road, by improving the wheel carriages which pass over it, all agree that the wheels should be made broader than they usually are, and cylindrical; that carts with two horses abreast are less injurious than such as are dra
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