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Show I! 'MAKING OF "GOOD ROADS. Methods Applltd 'Successfully by n Road Supervisor of State ; of Nebraska. 'I hare been roail supervisor In this locality and liavo used tho King mc-od mc-od o'f Improving our bottom roads, Writes a Nebraska correspondent of tho Rural New Yorker. Ah the road drag does not give satisfaction on level roads, It Is most essential to grade roads, so as to give a good drain from center to ditch. Remove nil rocks nnd roots possible, and rco that water does not stand In ditches more than Is ncc-Till: ncc-Till: HO A I) DUAd. cssary, on account of not being able 'to drain them. After overy rain, as soon as ground Is crumbly, hitch up to a drag, stand It so as to work dirt to-ward to-ward center of road, and you will soon ico n difference In tho roads; they will not get as muddy, or bo cut up ns badly bad-ly as before. IAs to the construction of drag, which must bo mado of good strong material, It requires two planks 3xG, six feet long, marked 1 in diagram; two pieces of 4x4, threo feet long, 2; two iron rods with bur, 3; ono stool plato three inches wide, sharpened nnd bolted on front plnnk slanting slightly forward, 4. one heavy long chain, straight link, B, ten feet long, and bolted on front plnnk; ono adjustable ring on chain to fasten doubletree, G. Always hitch I four horses to drag it you wish to do good work. Nail boards across drag on 4x4 so n common farm wagon seat can1 bo fastened on for tho drivers to rldo, or If tho drivers prefer to wnlk plnco some other weight on drag. It drag should slldo toward ditch adjust link on chain, so as to run moro level, nnd if it does not deliver dirt to center slant It until It docs. |