Southern good roads . ild and Use It By MR. LEONARD TUFTS FIRST: Build a drag according to cuts herewith,using a split log or 2 i^iece or or S feet long. AVe prefer to run the iron the fulllength of the front scraper. SECOND: Hitch a pair of go mI horses or mules toit; attach the double tree at a point in the chain thatwill compel the drag to follow the team at an angle ofabout forty-five degrees, with the left hand end of thedrag to the rear; and when the mad surface soil ismoist, but not sticky, step U and drag on the righthand side of the road fir ten miles and then
Southern good roads . ild and Use It By MR. LEONARD TUFTS FIRST: Build a drag according to cuts herewith,using a split log or 2 i^iece or or S feet long. AVe prefer to run the iron the fulllength of the front scraper. SECOND: Hitch a pair of go mI horses or mules toit; attach the double tree at a point in the chain thatwill compel the drag to follow the team at an angle ofabout forty-five degrees, with the left hand end of thedrag to the rear; and when the mad surface soil ismoist, but not sticky, step U and drag on the righthand side of the road fir ten miles and then turnaround and come back on the Iight hand side. HOW TO USE A KlXd ROAD ])liA(i OX SAXD- CLAY, GRAVEL AXD T()l> SOIL ROADS THAT HAVE REEX COXSTKrCTED. The stufaee of a saml-clay. gravel or top soil road. after use. has only been made compact an inch or so down. Any machine, such as a road machine, is almost sure to tear up this compact surface and leave it the same loose mass as when first built and this will soon. United States Model be full of holes and ruts from traflic. A road dragshould be made light so that it will move a little of thesurface at a time and also so a pair of mules can pullit. If a little is moved after a rain with a drag the drag••slicks the surface like a plasterers trowel. Dont expect that one dragging -will put a badly rutted roadin good cdiiditioii. an<l dimt drag a road more thaiionce ir twii-e after eai-h rain or it will tear up the hardsurface. ]_)rag the road only when it is wet fur you can(iidy get till •slicking action theu. After a heavy rain the water running off the surface(if a road makes little trenches which run off at rightangles with the mad. if the drag is drawn at rightangles with the road it drops into each little trenchand instead of filling it u]! digs it out. The dragslniuld therefore lie drawn at an angle with the road,and it will then fill up the trenches. ? Let the edge ofth(^ drag run over the gutter so
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