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Show AVERAGE HAUL OF PRODUCTS Distance Placed at 6.5 Miles by Department De-partment of Agriculture Good Roads Are Needed. The federal department of agriculture agricul-ture states that the average haul of farm products from field to market Is 6.5 miles. The importance of good roads needs little more illustration than this. With a solid roadbed, a six-mile haul is cheap and easy. With the roads turned into mudholes, as they are In many parts of our land at the critical season, such a trip Is frightfully fright-fully expensive and sometimes Impossible. Impos-sible. One Southern pnper, fighting for better roads, publishes a photograph of a four-mule team hauling a single bale of cotton 500 pounds and stuck in the mud less than a mile from the edge of the city. This is an exception, excep-tion, perhaps, but not a rare one. There are thousands of cases In which it costs more to get wheat from farm to elevator than to carry It from the elevator across continents and oceans to the place where it is ground and baked into bread. Chicago JournaL |