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Show Benefits of Good Roads to the Average Farmer Good roads are of great value, especially to the farmers. They reduce the cost of hauling and adjacent land becomes more valuable. Every community com-munity should have good roads. Roads should be dragged after every rain ; if they are not dragged they will become be-come hard and rough. At the end of the summer they will be in such condition con-dition that they will be hard on the horses' feet and almost impossible to drive over, writes' Inga J. Olson of Williams county, N. D., in the Dakota Farmer. When the roads are improved the farms are increased in value because the cost ofiaullng is decreased. The business of farming Is essentially de-I de-I pendent' on the condition of country I roads for whatever is not produced on the farm must be hauled to the farm and many crops of the farm must be hauled to the station aril local mar-I mar-I kets. For instance, if two farmers I lived about ten miles from town, one j bad a good road to town and the I other had a bad road, and the price of wheat went up to Sl'.OO a bushd. j the farmer who had a good road could I haul about SO bushels, wh'le the olher I farmer could only haul about 40 bushels. Therefore, the farmer that ! had the good road got SIO'i.OO while the other fellow only got SSO.OO. If the latter had bad a good road he could have haulwl ;n much more as he did. By the time lie got his grain I to town, the price of wheat may have ! gene down to SLfiO a bushel. |