Canadian engineer . of Agriculture. Through this office, expert en-gineers are supplied free of charge and object lesson roadsare built in those counties assuming county road sums are voted by different States for building goodroads, and the cities, moreover, not being separated fromthe counties in which they lie, contribute towards the countyrates, so that there the farmers do not carry all the burdenof maintainin>- the highways. The city of Buffalo, for in-stance, has already contributed towards the building of roadsin Erie County over a million dollars, and pays besides, it
Canadian engineer . of Agriculture. Through this office, expert en-gineers are supplied free of charge and object lesson roadsare built in those counties assuming county road sums are voted by different States for building goodroads, and the cities, moreover, not being separated fromthe counties in which they lie, contribute towards the countyrates, so that there the farmers do not carry all the burdenof maintainin>- the highways. The city of Buffalo, for in-stance, has already contributed towards the building of roadsin Erie County over a million dollars, and pays besides, itsshare of the $50,000,000 voted a few years ago by the Stateof New York for good roads. For these reasons contribu-tions from the Federal treasury are less necessary in theUnited States, and yet several bills are now before Congressfor this purpose. In Canada, however, no better way canbe found to defray the cost of buildin,g and maintainingroads than by annual appropriations from the surplusrevenue of the Hon. R. L. Bor{(en. * Paper read at Ontario Good Roads Convention, To-ronto, Feb, 27th, 1912. Grants to Provinces.—When the large delegation waitedon Premier Borden on Pebruary 8th he assured us that theDominion Government would make substantial grants to thenine provinces for highway improvement. If .$ for every man, woman and child is given for thispurpose the total sum to be voted by Parliament would beabout $<S,000,000. This amount could hardly be cxp<mdedto advantage this year as we are not prepared as yet forsuch extensive operations, probably one half of this amountwould be sufficient. However, if one dollar per head ofpopulation is considered a reasonable sum, it will be safeto say that $50,000,000 will be required for good roads with-in the next six or seven years. To divide this grant fairlybetween the different provinces should not be a difficult provinces have greater need of good roads than agriculture is th
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