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Show FARM TRANSPORTATION IMPORTANT. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, improved . roads have cut automobile operating costs from ten to less than seven cents a mile during the past few years.. In addition, our thousands of miles of paved highways have stimulated social contacts, accelerated business and industry and played an appreciable apprec-iable part in the progress of American Ameri-can civilization. In most states adequate trunk highway high-way systems are now in existence. The vital need is for a greatly increased in-creased mileage of improved feeder, or farm-to-market roads. But a small percentage of American farmers farm-ers live on roads which are passable during all months of the year. As a result the farmer is cut off from his markets, and local merchants lose valuable business which good roads would bring them. - American agriculture deserves a fair deal. If there is a. serious farm problem at present, good roads could materially help in solving it by increasing in-creasing efficiency in farm transportation. transpor-tation. Thi3 would be ; of great value to the town and city dwellers as well. Every state should; provide its rural rur-al sections with improved, all-weather roads as fast as the budget will permit. |
