. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 260 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE than good ones? All products of the farm must be trans- ported over roads, and it may cost more to haul these products to market for several years, over poor roads, than to build good roads and haul the products over them. Points to —Are the roads good between your home and the schoolhouse? Between your home and town?. Figure 117.—A specimen of a bad road. Are there steep hills, or places where the road is rough, or muddy, or sandy? Have you thought that the size of the load that can be hauled to town is determin
. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 260 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE than good ones? All products of the farm must be trans- ported over roads, and it may cost more to haul these products to market for several years, over poor roads, than to build good roads and haul the products over them. Points to —Are the roads good between your home and the schoolhouse? Between your home and town?. Figure 117.—A specimen of a bad road. Are there steep hills, or places where the road is rough, or muddy, or sandy? Have you thought that the size of the load that can be hauled to town is determined by the size of the load that can be hauled over the worst place or places? This is true; and many times one has to go to town with only half a load, on account of some bad place m the road. The cost of marketing farm products is thus in- creased and consequently the price of farm produce tends to increase; because, if the roads are bad, fewer products can be brought to town and fewer farmers will try to get products to market. Persons who live in town and have to buy the farm products are interested in good roads, be- cause they want to get their vegetables, flour, etc., as cheap. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, Archie Dell, 1875- [from old catalog]; Wilson, E. W. , [from old catalog] joint author. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb publishing co.
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