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Show GET ROADS INTO CONDITION " i Where Rough Spots Have Formed King Road Drag May Be Used to Advantage During Mid-Day Thaws. , There's a bad condition of country roads along In the fall due to lato rains and hard frcozes. Thoy becomo bo rough that it makes tho horso'u feet Boro to travel over thorn, shakos tho wagon nearly to pieces and makes riding anything but pleasant This condition can bo helped a great dotil by the judicious ubo of tho King road drag. If tho roads had boon kept In proper shnpo nil summer nnd fol. lowing tho fall rains thoy would havo shed wntor and not becomo muddy, to freeze rough. But after It has happened hap-pened tho noxt best thing is to uso tho drag on thera during tho midday thaw. Then tho hummockB will bo planed down and the ruts filled to freeze more smooth during tho night. Of courso, It will tako constant watching watch-ing and caro for a fow dayB in tho fnll to put tho roads In propor condition condi-tion for a freeze but It will pay to do to. Tho farmors do much hauling In winter nnd for tho Bako of tho horses, tho driver and tho wagon, and for tho i sako of having flno sleighing whon tho snow comes, it pays to havo tho roada In good condition. If no ono has a King drag then got out tho splko tooth harrow and smooth tho roads. , It will be va good thing in some pluces to thin out the groves and hedges along tho roads Theso catch tho snow and causo bad drifts all win-.or. win-.or. Thoso drifts causo vory bad mud-lolcs mud-lolcs in tho spring. Uso tho it whore icccssnry. |