Show i 1 C 1 t IS YOUR ROAD DRAG IN USE If Not Certain It Is That Your Roads Are Not In Good Condition Three years ago wo Induced tho Northwestern railroad to employ Mr D Ward King and spend three weeks In going from county seat to county seat In the muddiest part of their muddy territory persuading farmers to make road drags and use them for the purpose of having better roads to theso towns A great deal of enthusiasm enthusi-asm was aroused and wherever the road drag was used as directed there was a wonderful Improvement In the country roads In some sections this Improvement has been continuously maintained In other sections the zeal of the farmer has slackened and the roads while not as bad as before are yet far from being what they should and could bo Are you living In one of these sec tions pid you make a road drag and use It and tell your neighbor of tho oj f d Two Miles of Road Kept In Perfect Condition by King Drag great Improvement made In your road and other roads by Its use Are you using It now or Is your road drag lying In the fence corner If so why so Aro you one of those fellows who tolerate a bad road simply because they are not willing to use their efforts ef-forts to make It a good one In the ways that have been so clearly pointed out Or are you living In a township where you have a narrowmlnded trustee trus-tee who Is not willing to pay you to use Iti or In a township of whlcfc there are a number where the roads were made reasonably good by use of the drag but the supervisor has ordered out the grader and spoiled all your good work How about It Where the road drag has been used according to directions declares Wall Wal-l cos Farmer and where there have been intelligent road supervisors tho roads are today better than anybody Imagined they possibly could be when this campaign was Inaugurated We can point out sections In the state of Iowa where tho roads have been howell ho-well dragged that only Immediately after the very heaviest rains Is there any rutting even when passed over by heavy loads We demonstrated three years ago that If the poll taxIn states where a poll tax Is levied were spent In intelligent In-telligent dragging of the country roads and the ordinary taxes used for putting In permanent culverts and small bridges the road problem would be practically solved so far as country coun-try roads are concerned always excepting ex-cepting roads near the cities over which very heavy traffic Is constantly passing There some kind of hard surfacing would be required Wo are satisfied that for the ordinary country road In the < corn belt there Is nothing as yet discovered for road maintaining purposes that Is equal to the simple road drag where the roads have been properly drained and graded by the use of the road grader |