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Show Bad Roads. There is a matter that makes baa roads a factor of loss. That is in the sale of the farm. A farm ten miles out on a road impassable for five months in a year has five-twelfths of its usefulness impaired, and is certainly cer-tainly worthy of 33 1-3 per cent, in trinsica.ly. less thrvn It should be were the roads not so liad. Bad roads are a deterrent to settlement, thus dri ving an additional value away from farm land due to increasing population. popula-tion. They act as a repellent force to drive the boys and girls and desirable de-sirable citizens from farm life. Bad roads tend to pessimism, to nnhap-piness nnhap-piness and make an added argument for those who would contend that marriage is a failure and lite nol worth living. |