Show A GOOD FLOOD GATE one that stay in I 1 lace the year around and turn stock from oln lna held those who have large ditches or creeks running through their tarn s des rous of gett ng a good berv floodgate one that will stay in i lace all t mes of vear and turn stok sto k from aijo n ng hel 1 the old fisl el flood gite hung by the top to foot log v as al av s be ng 1 open bv hocks and til eg stal ed do anu then tl e first heavy freshet was sure to burst it from its fasten and carry it lo 10 stream fhe gate sho sn in cut can be made upon any farm and when in place will take tare of itself two posts are i ear the outer bank of the chan EFFECTIVE FLOOD GATE nel an aik oik log ten to fourteen echea in diameter is fash 01 ed like a wind lass and attached atti ched to the posts as in illustrato illus trat on with clamp bands made from heavy ron and fas bened with lag to posts the roller is then bored full of two inch auger holes the des red d stance apart to receive the p crets wh ch are split from tough oak V weight shown at A completes the job this we is intended to keep the gate alev 1 s in an uj r posit on and should be placed i upstream i e above the flood gate hen heal freshets are in ev dence the force of the water ra ses the weight and al vs easy 1 as sage of water dr ft etc an 1 as the water des ane we settles back leaving the gate in proper i os tion where hogs cannot root it t nor other stock trespass into a ijo n ing fields the we must be n ade to correspond with he and we of gate if the v eigl t be too heavy so that the force of current does not open it saw ece off of weight only actual test wilt determine th s D in the illustration is the surface 1 ne of the w ater george vi brown in ohio banner philippine ROADS A million dollars to be spent in the improvement of ilond at and near manila the phil pp ne commission has ap 1 for the improve ment of the roads in the island of lu if th s e im be wi ely and eco no expended 1 in constructing highways connect ng important towns so as to enable theia 1 abitanta abi tants to have easy comman cat on with each other even during the ra n season it will 1 ave a bei enc al effect pon the people of the territory through wh ch the roads pass i robill greater than ild I 1 lie been secured by any other expend t ire the spaniards 1 d i road as nece ary or even desirable i less t v p ill serve m stary pur pose the ri r i 1 i from man la to dag i pan ae tl em ample ine ansof trans port ng s aan n tion and stores 1 eav een those pi ces an 1 bey on 1 dag pan ft e b it i i e bro broi i 1 macidym el bollei irl s tr s gan there s u m ir h gl SL across the island near its bouti souti ern extremity general ly ing ho ever luzon has no rods except these tint can be trae ledi b a cl in tl e rainy ea son ind fe of them ire g ble on horsek ck lH the I 1 lip nos do not stray fir from their home and news is ell is mer chind fee docs not freely it is no buncom mon th ng to fi I 1 i ety of d alecks en by the nat es in traversing 30 or 40 m los and th s d of lan e peti ate iba nil ties n tl e ay of travel aready star 1 as been made by tl e un ted states officers in la 1 ere the streets have been greatly improve ed an th s beati re of bencan 1 regress has been one of the mo it paip i lar of any intro 1 1 I 1 v our people there seems to be a noticeable connect tion between the means of commini cat on of intro ai 1 its bogress to ard chiv 1 bat on lio 1 ly mot on ap pears to stimulate movement and ST r if tl tl e 11 1 for good roa Is in I 1 on is devote 1 to the mak ng of satisfactory 1 snot partly d ver ed into the of shiftless or d contractors vrho g vp no valent it s probable that vl alever mav be the i it mate fate of the island f iture generah ons of fil pinos w 11 apala id the first legislative act of the american commission as one of the w sest steps it could have taken chicago record bowen freshly cut the mead aws form a valuable adjunct to the fall feed of da ry v s to allow the cova to lie in open pastures until the night are freez ing coldi is to invite a steady decrease in milk yield |