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Show TONNAGE ON COUNTRY ROADS Report of Bureau of Markets Shows Extent to Which Highways Are Being Used. The necessity of keeping country roads in good condition is shown by a report recently compiled by the bureau" of markets and crop estimates, esti-mates, United States Department of Agriculture, showing the extent to which they are used in hauling farm products to market. According to the report, which shows the tonnage of 11 products hauled on country roads, giving the yearly average for the period pe-riod from 1915 to 1919, there were 27 tons of these 11 crops hauled for every ev-ery 100 acres of land. The average tonnage of the 11 crops hauled on country roads each year for the period pe-riod mentioned amounted to 86,560,000 tons. The 11 crops referred to In the report are corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, rice, flaxseed, cotton (including seed), tobacco, potatoes, and cultivated culti-vated hay. |