Community civics and rural life . pof the roads. On the roads selected for improvement there were 35 farmsincluding 5518 acres. In 1910, the average value of these farms, including buildings, was $14 per acre, andimprovements seldom did any one want to buy land in the neigh-on land borhood. But within two years after the road improvement seven of the 35 farms had been sold,and a large part of another, as shown in the following table: Farm Acres Value in1909-10 Sold for in 1912 Increase Per Cent I 2 139420 $35006000 $50008250 4337 3 IOI 3000 375° 25 4 5 475357 5000 2800 125004400 15076 6 133 70
Community civics and rural life . pof the roads. On the roads selected for improvement there were 35 farmsincluding 5518 acres. In 1910, the average value of these farms, including buildings, was $14 per acre, andimprovements seldom did any one want to buy land in the neigh-on land borhood. But within two years after the road improvement seven of the 35 farms had been sold,and a large part of another, as shown in the following table: Farm Acres Value in1909-10 Sold for in 1912 Increase Per Cent I 2 139420 $35006000 $50008250 4337 3 IOI 3000 375° 25 4 5 475357 5000 2800 125004400 15076 6 133 7000 10000 43 78 100 JIO 30001500 475° 2000 (for 80 acres) 58 60 (besides $500 fortimber and 30acres remaining) In the next two or three years a number of other farmswere sold at similar increased prices, and some farms that hadbeen abandoned were reoccupied. Large areas of land werecultivated for the first time since the Civil War. The farmerswere, however, most interested for the time being in their ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION 253. A Road in Mississippi before and after Improvement timber wealth, and between 1909 and 1913 the shipments offorest products from Fredericksburg increased per the improvement of the roads, the average weight 254 COMMUNITY CIVICS of load for a two-horse team in the winter and spring, whenthe roads were bad, was about 1200 pounds; when the roadsThe average were dry, about 2400 pounds. The cost for haul-haul ing at this rate averaged, for the year round, about 30 cents per ton per mile. After the roads were improved, theaverage load the year round was 4000 pounds, and the cost forhauling only 15 cents per ton per mile. (See illustrations.) Investigate and report on: Results of road improvement in others of the eight counties referred toon page 248 (see Bulletin 393, 1916, Department of Agriculture). Procure or make a map of your county showing road improvement. Isyour county well provided with improved roads ? Do the cities and towns in y
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