. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Boad Demonstt'ations. 327 the material to the low ground. When the road was shaped and rolled the appearance and conditions were entirely changed. A concrete cul- vert 30 inches in diameter and 24 feet long with head walls was also built. The interest was good and although the work was 1/^ mile out of town the total attendance was 250. The longest stop of the trip was made at Marshfield, where we met with our first bad weather, although it caused little delay. A shower ear
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Boad Demonstt'ations. 327 the material to the low ground. When the road was shaped and rolled the appearance and conditions were entirely changed. A concrete cul- vert 30 inches in diameter and 24 feet long with head walls was also built. The interest was good and although the work was 1/^ mile out of town the total attendance was 250. The longest stop of the trip was made at Marshfield, where we met with our first bad weather, although it caused little delay. A shower early Friday morning prevented work until 10 a. m. and left the surface in a slippery condition for the remainder of the day. The wet condition made heavier work and caused the engine and grader to slip and slide so the machinery could not be placed where desired. Here we had one mile of road set out for us beginning one mile out of town. The first one-fourth mile was the hardest section to work that. Interest shown at Ash Grove in the demonstration road worlv. we found on the trip. It did not look bad, but tlie one stony point to be graded down together with the rest of the one-fourth mile was a cherty soil, tight and hard, filled with "nigger heads" and flint boulders. It was hard to plow and difficult to move when loosened up. The second one-fourth mile was a nice even stretch of earth. The third one-fourth mile was a very rougli piece of old road which had been wet and was still full of boggy places, the whole being poorly drained. In times past the holes had been filled with boulders in an irregular way, which resulted in more bog holes and a very crooked alignment. Our plows unearthed about 200 feet of old corduroy road. The rain standing in the low places, together with the bog holes, chunks of rock and corduroy, made it a difficult piece of road to shape Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhance
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