Show ROADS ESSENTIAL TO successful FARMING in general more attention has been eon given to the improvement of 0 tate state highways during the past ten years than to country roads say bays harry tucker professor of highway engineering at north carolina state college the r result Is that t the he farmers in any communities are unable to take tull full benefit of the improved roads through difficulty in getting to them they are now demanding roads that will be passable for during all seasons of the year and rightly so tor for the success ot of the modern farmer la Is dependent upon diver diversification 41 fi of his farm products and tho the means of gettig them easily and hulcy to a market it Is an ill III wind h hat at blows no one good and the unemployment problem has done much to advance the farm road movement in the last fow few months has been raised tor for public works and this being augmented by the sale of bona bonds voted last november A large part of the total la Is tor for roads to assure the greatest value from the these funds a fair relation between main aid secondary roads must be maintained main highways no matter how straight and wide and si smooth are valueless to a farner farmer who lives five miles away from them on a road that becomes a series ot of mud holes in winter there la Is much talk nowadays about a new agricultural era and good farm to barket roads must be ba built it that hope la Is to be an actuality |