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Show 18 YOUR ROAD DRAQ IN U9E? If Not, Certain It U That Your Road Are Not In Good Condition. Threo years ago we Induced the Northwestern rnllrond to employ Mr. D. Ward King and spend throe weeks In going from county seat to county aeat In tlio muddiest part of their muddy territory persuading farmers to make road drags and uso them for the purpose of having better roads to these towns. A great deal of enthusiasm enthusi-asm was aroused, nnd wucrover tlio road drag wag used as directed there was 'a wonderful Improvement In the country roads. In somo sections this Improvement has been continuously maintained. In other sections tlio zeal of the farmer has slackened and the roads, whlla not as bad as before, aro yet far from being what they should and could bo. Aro you living In ono of thoso sections? sec-tions? Did you mako a road drag and uso It, and tell your neighbor of the Two Miles of Road Kept In Perfect Condition by King Drag. II groat Improvement mado In your road I: nnd other roads by Its uso? Aro you 3 using It now, or Is your road drag t lying In tho fence cornor? If so, why I so? Are you ono of thoso fellows who I- tolerato a bad rond simply because r thoy &ro not willing to uso their of-I of-I forts to mako It a good ono In the I waya that havo boon so clearly polntod out? Or are you living In a township i whore you havo a narrowmlnilert trus-iv. trus-iv. ' tee, who Is not willing to pay you to I, so It; or In a township (of which R there are a number), whoro tho roads L, were made reasonably good by uso i of tho drag, but tho supervisor has' ordered out tho grader and spoiled all . your good work? How about It? ft Whero the road drag has boon used , according to directions, declares Wal if lace's Farmer, und whoro there have B r, i been Intelligent road supervisors, the p roads are to-day better than anybody I Imagined they possibly could bo when I- this campaign was Inaugurated. We L can point out sections In the stato of I Iowa, whoro tho roads havo been so f "oil dragged that only Immediately I after, tho very heaviest rains Is there any rutting, oven when passod over by heavy loads. Wo demonstrated three yenrs ago that If tho poll tax In statos whoro !' a poll tax Is levied woro spent In Intelligent In-telligent dragging of tho country roads, and tho ordinary taxes used for putting In permanent culvorts and small bridges, tho road problom would be practically solved so far as country coun-try roads aro concerned, always ex-- ex-- ceptlng roads near tho cities ovor which, vory heavy trafllo Is constantly I vJM'liS. There some kind of hard I wrfnclng would be required. Wo are I satisfied that for tho ordinary country m road In Hie corn bolt thoro Is nothing p as yet discovered for road maintaining K purposes that Is equal to tho slmplo L road drag, where tho roads havo been 0 properly drained and graded by the Wf , use of tho road grader, l |