| Show narrow wagon and bad while flie subject of new roads is being agitated by the legislatures and the agricultural journals the farmers are busy working up the subject in a practical though possibly not in the most proper way by industriously and at much expense of time and team cutting up and destroying the roads by driving heavily loaded narrow tired wagons oyer them when we see a man on A heavily loaded narrow tired wagon arg ing along hia jaded team engaged to bis utmost power in making mud and then grumbling because of the horrid muddy roads he seems to be an object for pity the only thing he seems disposed to do to make matters different is to throw some hard words into the murdiest muddiest mud diest places and then continue his custom ot turning out on to the highway with his rucj digger every time the ground is too wet for plowing now if the legislator is to do anything for the roads let them begin by legislating the narrow tires off the heavy lumber and truck wagons I 1 have been a single heavy narrow tired wagon in the distance of a half mile cause more damage than could be repaired in six days of ordinary road work the question seems to be about this which is the better economy wide tires and good roads or narrow tires aud bad roads the narrow kirea are as much but of place on the farm as on the highway men admit that facts and philosophy are in favor of wide tires and say that when all the others use wide tires they will do so they seem to be afraid that they will do more than their proportionate share of good in this world it beems that the legislature may have to help them out of their rut Co lemans rural world |
