Show Good Roads lID lave Have ve Helped I Farmers Those Who Vho Once Grew Only Staples Now Plant Many Good Crops The Tile period of phenomenal I progress In tn good road building throughout the I United States which has marked the past ten years has hns worked an unanticipated unan and extremely beneficial change In American diet For every mile of Improved highway laid down some gome farmer has added to his pr production production duc tion of wholesome green vegetables readily marketable In the nearest city Tills This Is the odd and Interesting point brought out by Earle Duffy Dulty writer In Inthe Inthe inthe the Farm J Journal who points out that good roads are quite as essential to time the modern farmer as IU his agricultural machinery Itself Change In North Carolina In North Carolina for tor example this amazing change has hns come comp about since the passage of ot the time first t r state slate bond boud Issue for good roads In 1021 be he points out Farms where nothing but tobacco was wall grown irown for tor decades are now green treen with truck crops crop of ot all kinds kinds- Dairying too has sprung Into prominence for It has become become become be be- come an easy eaRY matter to ship dairy products to market by truck The same seine change has hns been blea wrought by good roads throughout the country It Is shown Farmers who once depended depended depended de de- almost entirely upon one staple crop crop corn corn cotton tobacco wheat wheat are are now going Jolo In widely for vegetables and fruits which would have been too perishable to be grown profitably under old transportation conditions Now because these commodities com com- can be whisked to market within a few v hours city residents are demanding and receiving a more varied varied va va- ried and constantly Increasing green diet Although the total of surfaced road construction In the country bas has be been n phenomenal In recent years there Is still much to be done Of miles of ot state highways In fn the United States approximately miles are surfaced surfaced sur sur- faced leaving miles to be Im im- pro t proved Dut But the gaps are being filled tilled rapidly the Farm Kami Journal writer points out onto Iowa for example Is at work on a f road program which will mean menu a paved network covering covering cov COT ering the state North Carolina since It made Its first forward step In 1921 has expended exve on a system of ot 1500 miles of paved ed roads Other states are rapidly filling tilling up their unpaved unpaved un un- paved proved gaps Essential to Farts Farm Success Farmers wh who a few tew years ago opposed opposed opposed op op- posed road improvements or were dubious concerning their advantages are now conceding that paved highways highways high high- ways are essential to farm success Not only Individual Indi farmers but farming sections are competing fiercely fiercely fierce tierce ly with each ench other toda today says Mr Duffy Certainly a rural community with Ith 5 miles of smooth pavements such as ns Fulton ulton county Georgia Ii la is much better fitted to do battle for tor 11 Its share of pro prosperity than a neighboring neighbor neighbor- ing lag county which must do business In la miles of mud |