Community civics and rural life . 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 co
Community civics and rural life . 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. Modern Transportation on Good Country Roads associations and journals devoted to the interests of automobilistshave been active in advocating the improvement of the publichighways. ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION 259 In Spotsylvania County we saw, also, that the improvementof roads in two districts was a direct advantage to the farmersof the other two districts. Carrying this idea Good roadsfurther, we shall see that the roads of one county not merely ofmay be of the greatest importance to other coun- oca concernties in the state; and those of one state of importance to otherstates. The crossties produced from the timber of SpotsylvaniaCounty may be wanted for railroad building in a distant cotton from the plantations of Tennessee or Texas is neededat the mills in New England. The wheat of the great farmsof the northwest supplies the whole nation. Most of the freightcarried on the railroads and steamships has at some time andin some form been hauled in wagons and trucks over countr
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