Show DOUBLE LOAD ON GOOD ROAD farmers haul two wagons hitched together to end of improved highway single on poor road from tho united states department of agriculture to see what really happens at the end of the good road a public road specialist of the department recently had observations made in different sections of the country the observers noted many country bound teamsters who drove two loaded wagons hitched one behind the other to the end of the good road and then found it necessary to leave one wagon by tho the roadside to be returned for later while Nl ille all the power of their teams was devoted to hauling a single wagon over the unimproved road farmers bound for the market frequently were seen to haul wood and similar products to the beginning of the good road there dumping them and returning for a second load when this arrived the two tivo loads were consolidated soli dated and easily hauled by a single team the remaining distance to market over the improved highway in oue one section of the country where oxen are still used teamsters were observed to bring their loads over ov erthe ithe dirt roads with two or three yokes of oxen when the beginning of the good roads was reached tile the teamsters would unhitch the extra animals and finish their journey with N ith a single yoke |