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Show HOW TO MAKE COUNTRY EARTH ROADS BETTER. i Work Flrt and T.Ik Afterward. Make a Drag and Use It Flr.it. Go to work yourself talk nftorwaril. Get n log dKht feet lone and elKht Inrhen thick, xpllt It la balf, buck It tatfi.'ther by dliiKounl Htiikcu thirty Indict) apnrt, vltb the Hjiltt nldcH ucIiik the rront. FaHtvii h chaia to each end of tho front log, hook a team to tho nilddlo of the chain, got -Hi-k. t k i KXHwHHHwH d-P r aH 3r'v P HPI i Srk lPT iPJf r- A UJ'I'EH H.VWINO t,0(l TO MAKH ItOAD HIIAfJ. tiOWI'.ll-UUINa KOAU XltlAU ihu rt i'h k out on tho country road nflcr n rain ami Html hi to haul the drag ovop ihv road at an nude ot furty-Ue di'Kicw. nnjvluK the Uln froia tke W, rrutttMH Utiv tenter of Uiro-UX'5! tiLySy '? l1' yJvr)cLvnurtK'lf-'jro-- I jii'lut lit fourteen weeks. I ' The Nt'eond thliiK Ih: .Study the needs ' of the little Htreteh of road upon whkh you actually do your work. Make that Htreteh of ruad a model of a good roadway In every imrtlcular. See to It that every Individual who drives over your road becomes a talk Inn advertisement for highway lm- provemeut. If you must blast out rork It urford pod drainage for the side Ktters alonj; your" road why blast thuni nut. Don't wait to talk about It. KiU'th and water spell mud, and a muddy road h not a kikhI road, and you cannot get rid of water until the water has the right slopo of a drain age channel to carry It otf. Third. It you will let no obstacle discourage you and If you will keep sublimely on. nluuulu- nheud us the old tortoWe did In Its race with the hare, which slept by the wayside thinking think-ing hc iiuse of Its UeetnciH It could overcome tho Blow going tortoise; If you make tho Improvement of couutry earth roads a study of pleasure and n ' sort of philanthropic religion, your achievements for highway betterment will be swift and suro throughout whichever country district you may work. |