| Show AD VANTAGES advantages or OF AN IMPROVED HIGHWAY A few years ago the advantages of good roads were considered purely from tile the aspect ot of social betterment the economic features were not fully even when the motor truck was introduced the people in general did not realize what this meant in relieving the railway of its short haul problem pl eblem nor of tile the advantages that alint would result in tho the farmer being able to put town down at tile the town dwellers door the fresh eggs cess poultry vegetables find and other farm produce that had find been wasted in thelast the past because 0 of tile the lack inck of good roads it was an impassable sell sea of mud that stood between tile the farmer and tho consumer when mien the denland demand was great lind and the market price most attractive the farm er Ws was hampered by lack of n serviceable road keople who have given tile the subject considerable study state that from 40 per cent upward of so called perishable crops actually do perish because markets aro are inaccessible tile the demand IL mail Is greatest greaff st uncertainties ot of highway transportation also cause crowded markets and low lov prices when demand Is only normal or below normal the farmer wants to unload his entire crop when tho the roads will let hini him and since the farmer means more than producers it Is 13 not strange that the profits suiter suffer from such overstocked over stocked markets in many sections where permanent roads have been built unexpected for them have been disclosed farm markets have been organized and the townsmen or housewife drives directly to tile the producer for eggs and butter fruit and vegetables it Is a satisfactory arrangement an gement for both and there Is but one profit from the farm to the dinner table in other sections hard roads have been the means of banishing the one room country schoolhouse where ed education U was dispensed in doubtful doses instead of the poorly equipped schoolroom a central consolidated school Is feasible and the motor bus bu carries as aa high as 48 pupils from the th farm home to the school stormy weather does not interfere with the tha attendance of the school for the road Is always the same medical men have said that hard surfaced roads are beneficial from 9 henith health standpoint as they are clean and free from dust dusl tills this Is also an attractive item for the housewife as aa it makes loss less house cleaning work in every section where hard roads roada have been built the many advantage i 1 are being multiplied as the general public comes to realize the real worth and possibilities of hard surfaced high ways they are gradually taking ad vantage of the roads not merely as aa a means meana of getting somewhere but as an n powerful force in community development and welfare |
