Show Good Roads Pay Par That an Improved road will In Increase In- In creaso crease vastly the tho productiveness of ot the area through which It runs has now been satisfactorily demonstrated ed by studies conducted by the United States Department of ot Agriculture In Virginia Conditions In Spotsylvania county were Investigated with care and the results have proved surprising In 1909 1309 the county voted voted voted vot vot- ed to Improve forty miles of ot roads Two years after the completion of this work wore the railroad took away In 12 months from Fredericksburg the county seat tons of ot agricultural agricultural agricultural tural and forest products hauled over the highway to that town lawn Before the Improvement of at the tho roads this total was anI only tons annually In other words the quantity quantity quan quan- Uty of ot the country's produce had risen more than 45 por per cent cent- Still Stillmore Stillmore Stillmore more Interesting however Is the In Increase Increase In- In Increase crease shown In tho the quantity of tho the dairy products In 1909 these amounted to Ibs lbs in 1911 to lbs Ibs an In Increase Increase increase In- In crease of practically per pel cent In two years In the same time shipments of ot wheat had Increased 59 per cent tobacco 31 per cent and lumber and other forest products 48 per cent In to this increase In quan quan- quantity quantity the cost of hauling each ton o of produce was reduced In other words the farmers not only produced more but produced more cheaply for the cost of transport transportation to market Is of ot course an Important factor actor In the cost of production From this point of view it is estimated ed that the spent In improving Improving ing Spotsylvania county count was well ex ex- ex- ex |