Show 0 DRAGGING ROADS IN SPRING operations should faegin just to B soon as the frost starts to come out of the ground nothing adds moro more immediate value to our farm fann land than accessibility to markets such connecting link between the farm and market being a good roud road the varly early drugging or of our dirt roads Is 18 certainly to bo be commended just as 09 soon as the frost begins to como come out of the ground tire the f farmer armer should commence dragging this Is not a laborious job a good d team can put tho the road between betwee n min him ond and tile tho first crossing toward towar d town even it if holt half a mile awny in good cori condition in fit a half day and tie ho will save sav 0 many times thries tm cost coat of such labor or expense during the year besides tho additional value it adds to tile tho farm there Is that personal pride that we all to every community and ay y to ourselves GRADING AND ROLLING ROADS 1100 S 1 steel device invented to correct certain degree decree fault of dray drags on an dry highways highway split logs and drags and claley manufactured drags involving the basic principle of mr D ward kings simple splitlog split log drag lieve dony dono much tor for tho the dirt roads of tho the nation and these make up tile the bulk of tile alio mileage nil leage of tho the country roads roada ot of tills this nation the originator ot of this type of drag advocated their use while the roal road was still muddy to puddle the dirt of the roads roada surface and so ninke make it more waterproof as aa well na as to smooth the surface of the road this Is the best time to use them tor then they accomplish ailiese two tasks so BO important to tho the making ot of a good dir troad but for some reason or othor other the bulk of users of road drags persist in using them only titter after tile the surface of the road has become dry anti rough after a rain simply to smooth it up tip in this way till ill the dragt drags of this type have ono one basic fault they leave a of loose dirt in tile can conter of tile the road if ilke he weather con tildes try dry and lot hot tills this soon boon dries and pulverizes into lust dust to bo be blown about with tho the shifting winds it if it rains this loose dirt quickly absorbs absorb fl a large amount of water arid turny into mud much quicker than tann it would woula have been if it lind been packed rinn and hard instead of ning being loose and porous herewith Is shown a drawing of a steel drag of tills this same kind which la Is designed to correct to a certain degree at least this fault of drags when used on dry ground it Is designed to pack more or less firmly chiq ahli little ridge of loose 1000 dirt which Is T W grader and roller drawn into the middle of the rond road by tile the smoothing action of the drag when the road Is dry just back of the delivery end of both blades to bedraga be the drag Is a hinged roller for tile the purpose of further pulverizing ver vor izing and also of packing this loose dirt one lever leyar controls the cutting or dragging drag glug blades go fio they can he be set at Aliat ever angle Is desired to regulate the degree of cutting which Is 13 done by oy them another lover lever regulates regulate the height at which the rollers way may lo be set and so po the ho amount of packing they shall doi do business farming LEARNED TO GROAN sight of road grader in offing fills hla his heart with dismay drag le ie cause of smiles speaking of grading operations the has learned to groan when han ho be ecca a road rend grader mantled manned by a half dozen veiling men show up in the alio offing ile ho known knotty that tile the presence of the grader forecasts had bad roads roada for weeks to come sod loo loose dirt ruts arid and bui rips and when the rain min comes with willi little prospect of quick drying doing of tile the sodden mass mahs but lie ho guilles when han lie sees seea u road drag for ho he knows that improvement of the road and permanent ben benefit benedit elit |