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Show GOOD GOOD ROAD DRAGGING Two-Slab Log, With "Set Back," Found Satisfactory. the stakes shall fit properly. The hole to receive the forward end of the chain should be bored at the same time. The two slabs should be held 30 inches apart by the stakes. Straight grained timber should be selected for the stakes, so that each stake shall fit snugly into the 2-inch hole when the two slabs are in the proper prop-er position. The stakes should taper gradually toward the ends. There should be no shoulder at the point where the stakes enter the slab. The stakes should be fastened in place by wedges only. When the stakes have been placed fn position and tightly wedged, x a brace two inches thick and four inches inch-es wide should be placed diagonally to them at the ditch end. The brace should be dropped on the front slab so that its lower edge shall lie within an inch of the ground, while the other end should rest in the angle between the slab and the end stake. - OnevCommon Mistake In Construction of Device Is That It Is Too Heavy and Another Is in Use of Square Timbers. A great many experiments have been made with a, great variety of devices de-vices for road dragging, but the two-Blab two-Blab log or plank drag with liberal "set back" has been found the most satisfactory. Double drags for working work-ing both sides of the roadway simultaneously simul-taneously have been tried with only limited success, says a writer in the Illinois Farmer. The reason for this lies in the fact that both sides of an earth road are never exactly alike. This causes the two parts of the drag to work unevenly and to interfere with each other. It is also impossible for one man to operate both parts successfully, as will be shown later on Two mistakes are commonly madt, in constructing a drag. The first lies in making it too heavy. It should be so light that one man can easily lift it. Besides, a light drag responds more readily to various methods of hitching and to the shifting of the position and weight of the operator, both of which are essential considerations, consider-ations, A drag can be made heavier at any time by proper weighting. Tho other mistake is in the use of squared timbers, instead of those with sharp edges, whereby the cutting cut-ting effect of sharp edges is lost and the drag is permitted to gli ie over I instead of to equalize the irregularities irregular-ities in the surface of the road. These mistakes are due partly to badly drawn illustrations and plans of drags which have occasionally appeared in newspapers and partly to the erroneous errone-ous idea that it is necessary that a large amount of earth shall be removed re-moved at one time. A dry red cedar log is the best material for a drag. Red elm Is an excellent material, and box elder, 60ft maple or even willow are preferable to oal. hickory, or ash. The tog should be 7 or 8 feet long and from 10 to 12 inches in di- ameter, and carefully split down the j middle. The heaviest and best slab should be selected for the front. At I a point on this front slab 4 inches I from the end that is to be at the middle of the road locate the center cen-ter of the hole to receive a cross stake and 22 inches from the other md of the front slab locate the center cen-ter for another cross stake. The hole for the middle stake will lie on a line connecting and halfway between the other two. The back slab should now be placed in position behind the other. From the end which is to be at the middle of the road measure 20 inches for the center of the cross stake, and 6 inches from the other end locate the center of the outside stake. Find the center of the middle hole as before. When these holes are brought opposite each other, one end of the back slab will lie 16 inches nearer the center of the roadway than the front one, giving what is known as "set back." , The holes should be two inches In diameter. Care must be taken to hold the auger plumb ta boring the holes in order that t |