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Show Good Road Around Home Is of Much Importance Since this Is the day of automobiles and trucks on the farm, the question of a good road around the home place is of vital Importance, writes G. R. Farmer, in the Farm and Ranch. The county or state funds cannot build a gravel road to every farmhouse. That would be Impracticable. Therefore, the farmer must look around for an economical way to do it himself. When we think of the many creeks, with beds and beds of gravel waiting ts be utlllxed into a good road, we wonder why there are no more good gravel roads around every farm. The work can be done entirely during dur-ing wet and muddy weather If necessary, neces-sary, and in this way the farmer can have good roads by putting in work on K at times when he could not be doing work in the field. Of course, It could not be expected to build any great length of road in one or two days, unless un-less the farmer has considerable help. But by first grading up the road, or a part of it, during one wet spell, finishing finish-ing It the next one, and then putting put-ting the gravel from the creek bed on it each succeeding rain thereafter, until un-til the road is up In first-class condition, condi-tion, a lot may be accomplished. Even though the gravel supply might not be enough to build the required re-quired length of road, one needs only to wait until the next rain, and when the water has receded, he will find s new gravel bed waiting for him. To figure the saving a good gravel road would be to each farm would be an impossibility, for Its good will go en so long as the farm la operated, and the road is kept up, which can be done very easily by filling in each weak place with more gravel from the creek, as it is needed. So economical is this kind of road, that wherever there Is a creek with gravel beds, there Is no excuse for the live, progressive farmer not having s gravel road all around his farm. By co-operation among the farmers, a gravel road can be extended to the county or state highways, or to the next closest town. However, that is a question that would bring In other points, and this Is an article to apply to the Individual farmer who would like to have a good gravel road for his own use on and around his farm. It will be the means of his being able to do hauling In muddy weather, when It would be Impossible to do It, did he not have a gravel road, and this alone will be worth much In dollars dol-lars and cents In the course of a year In getting products or machinery under un-der shelter when the weather requires it As this is an opportunity to have a good road with no investment except work, every farmer should give It serious seri-ous consideration, and make arrangements arrange-ments to work on the suggestion. |