Show BETTER ROADS AND SCHOOLS farmers beginning to sew that education fu in one room building Is 1 not adequate sooner or later we shall bo be driven to tho the centralization of schools la in somo some form not bof necessarily to the tha township school but we are all beginning to see that tha the education furnished in the on one room school with ten or twelve pupils on an average to la nov noc what the farmer needs and costs more mora thin it to Is worth therefore we take it that we shall be driven to some kind of consolidation when farmers get around to tho the point ot of figuring what their schools actually cost them per pupil per day and realize tho the inadequacy of this kind of training to fit their children for farm life they will remedy it by bunching the schools together befaro this can be done effectively there must be good roads roads over which the tha children can be carried comfortably to a large school where they will have the training that ailts them tor for life and in the larger schools a training that will take the place of 0 that of the town school nt at vastly less expense and less danger to the health and morals ot of the pupil to do this we must havo have good roads and good dirt roads at that tor for nine tenths ol of the roads that lead to the schoolhouse and to the country church must be dirt roads there are places in some of the eastern states where the children go to school in automobiles there are others where they go on roller skates as for example whore where cement roads have been established As we have often pointed out it is possible to have baye a a dirt road good throughout most ol of the yest year simply through the use of 0 the road drag after the road has been graded and drained and supplied with cu lverts and bridges there Is therefore a very close connection between the road drag and education no law however can compel tho the farmer to use the road drag wisely they must come to it of their own accord they roust must get to a point where it will be bd a disgrace to any farmer not to drag his road after eva country road near madison wis where native vegetation has been preserved and more of the kind I 1 planted ery rain most people dont realize ye yet t what a goott good road can be made in time by the use of the drar drag not in one ona year nor in two but it if the road Is dragged after every rain it will by and by become lecoma so BO hard and smooth and elastic that t will require a very con com old erable rain to put it out og oj coudle tion few people realize what a g great real improvement can bo be made in the road in even a tow few months by the use ol of tho the drag just as the road Is drying oh off after each rain |