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Show FARMERS SUFFER FROM ROUGH ROADS Most arguments for road improvements improve-ments as an aid in transporting farm products are based on "hauling grain, cotton, timber and other heavy materials, ma-terials, pays the American Highway association. as-sociation. There is another class which is important in some sections to which attention was recently drawn by Fred W, Davis, commissioner of agriculture of Texas. This is the class of. perih-a perih-a ble products, which it is very important impor-tant to deliver iu good condition at the shipping station. Many shipments have been rejected by consignee for bad condition, started start-ed while hauling the produce over rough roads. Such rejections are usually ascribed to the crookedness of (he commission com-mission merchant, but Davis says he lias observed tomatoes and other produce prod-uce loaded; into cars in such a damaged condition that they could not possibly be aceepte-l at their destination. As a remedy in a poor-roads district, many farmers fit their wagons with springs, which reduces their capacity, and in this wav incur an expense which would go far toward paying the taxes needed for good roads. |