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Show GOOD ROADS GOOD ROADS DURING WINTER School Districts and Neighborhoods Can Do a Little Community Work From Time to Time. In every community having dirt highways tho roads nro usually better In Into autumn than at any other tlrn In tho year. Wo ought to try to keep them that way, snys a Missouri writer In the Farm Progress. Wo can do so by Individual In-dividual efforts. School districts and neighborhoods enn do a llttlo community commu-nity work from tlrao to tlmo through tho wlntor and tho roads will bo good at least until tho deep thaws next March. I know how It Is In a good many neighborhoods. If thoro Is ono man who gets tho road-dragging fever and works n few days now nnd thon on th highway, tho rest of tho communltj looks on. Finally tho lono workor gets disgusted. Ho has reason to when there Is no co-oporntlon. Last fall seven of us living along ono of tho county seat highways managed man-aged to keep up our Intorest nearly all wlntor. Wo hitched to tho road drag ovory chanco wo got. Ono man was plowing about a mllo down tho road from his houso. Instead of riding back and forth In a wagon, ho hitched hit - , - - Good Rpad In Buchanan County, Mis . ' sourl. team to tho road drag, making two round trips of a two-miles each every day. That road Taa In oxcollentvP nearly all winter. It Is still ono of the best pieces of highway In tho county with tho exception of tho metalled roads. South of hero a fow miles tho merchants mer-chants In n llttlo town resorted to a dozon different plans to got tho farmers farm-ers to koop dragging tho roadslnst winter. They mndo prlco reductlom to tho mon who drovo Into towu pull ing road drags. Tho farthor tho drags had como tho moro tho reductions. Thoy advertised thoso plana oxtonsiye-ly, oxtonsiye-ly, gained a good deal of trade, had a steady trade all winter because of the good roads and tho wholo community was bonofltjd by bettor transportation facilities. It Is romarkablo howmany rallos ol road n man cun drag who gives some thought nnd Just a llttlo tlmo to keeping keep-ing tho highways in good shape. No matter how badly "cut up" tho highway high-way may ho If tho surfaco Is soft the road drag will smooth It down wonderfully. wonder-fully. Thoro was hardly a week last wlntor when every onq of tho seven raon who formed tho ngroement failed to drag flvo or six miles of tho hlsb wny. Whoro tho school Is lively nnd vigorous vig-orous thoro Is always a chanco of getting get-ting up somo road-dragging onthuslnstr thoro. Evory man In tho neighborhood Is Interested In tho school; thnt tha women aro Interested goes, without saying. Good roads all winter mean a bettor attondanco. A meeting moat any Friday afternoon at tho school house ought to result In a good man) rallcn of dragged road tho noxt dry. |