Community civics and rural life . ent domainenterprise ^gee p 207^ taking land from adjacent farmsfor the purpose of laying out a new road, provided, of course,that the farmers are paid for it. In the second place, the makingof a road is far too costly and difficult for an individual farmerto undertake for the benefit he himself would derive from it. Itrequires a great deal of labor and a high degree of technical skill. It has been quite common for farmers themselves to workon the roads of their locality — working out their road ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION 257 taxes. But roads so made are seldom
Community civics and rural life . ent domainenterprise ^gee p 207^ taking land from adjacent farmsfor the purpose of laying out a new road, provided, of course,that the farmers are paid for it. In the second place, the makingof a road is far too costly and difficult for an individual farmerto undertake for the benefit he himself would derive from it. Itrequires a great deal of labor and a high degree of technical skill. It has been quite common for farmers themselves to workon the roads of their locality — working out their road ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION 257 taxes. But roads so made are seldom very good, unless thework is supervised by some one trained in the a farmer works on the roads himself or Road maidngmerely pays for having it done, it is to his advan- a job fortage to know something about road making. The exper sDepartment of Agriculture and the state agricultural colleges nowgive extension courses in road making for the benefit of thefarmers. It is reported that in one county of Oklahoma the. Six Thousand Pounds of Milk in One Load on a NewYork Road pupils of forty different school districts have built more thanforty miles of good roads, of course working under country roads are of the greatest importance, not onlyto the farmers and rural communities, but also to the people ofcities. The road improvement in Spotsylvania Value ofCounty, Virginia, was of as much benefit to the country roadspeople and the business of Fredericksburg as to ° clthe farmers. An excellent illustration of the recognition of thecommon interest of city and country in the public roads, and ofeffective cooperation in improving them, was given in Chapter 258 COMMUNITY CIVICS III, page 32, in the case of Christian County, Kentucky. Thewide use of the automobile has done a great deal to awakenthe people of cities to their interest in country roads, and
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