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Show a i b a i - WADS IN BETTER CONDITION Ipllt-Log Drag of Great Service In Keeping Thoroughfares in Shape How It Is Built. Tho uso of tho split-log drag is lm-tortant lm-tortant in putting tho roads In shape. Thoro nro ovor 2,000,000 miles of earth oadB In tho country, and tho split-log Irag Is of great service in keeping hem In economical repair. Tho drag s used In many states and in foreign :ountrles. It is used with two, thrco, r four horses, and is easily con-itructcd. con-itructcd. It is a mistake to construct a heavy Irag. A dry red cedar log Is tho boat nntcrial for a drag. Red elm and wal-mt wal-mt when thoroughly dried nro excel-ont, excel-ont, and box older, soft maple, or ovon villow uro prcfcrablo to oak, hickory ir ash. Tho log should bo seven or olght 'cot long, and from ton to twolvo nchos In diameter, and carefully split town tho middle. Tho heaviest and lest slabs should bo selected for tho rout. At a point on tho front slab our inches from tho end that Is to bo it tho mlddlo of tho road locato tho tenter of tho holo to rcccivo a cross itako, and 22 inches from tho other md of tho front slab locato the centor or another cross stake. Tho holo or tho mlddlo stake will Ho on a lino tonnoctlng and halfway between tho ither two. Tho back slab should then be placed n a position behind the other. From ho end at tho mlddlo of tho road ncasuro 20 inches for tho centor of ho cross stake, and six Inches from ho other end locato tho center of tho The Split-Log Drag. mtsldo stako. Find tho contor of the nlddlo holo as boforo. When theso toles are brought opposite each other, me end of tho back slab will Ho 1G nehes nearer tho center of tho road-vay road-vay than tho front one. Tho holes mould bo two laches in diameter. Caro nust bo taken to hold tho augor plumb n boring theso holes in order that .ho stukes shall fit properly. Tho two slabs should bo hold 30 Inches apart by tho stakes. The (takes should taper gradually toward .ho ends. Thero should bo no shoul-lor shoul-lor nt tho point where tho stakes on-:er on-:er tho slab. Tho stakes should bo fastened In placo by wedgea only. IVhon tho stakes havo been placed in position and tightly wedged a brace .wo inches thick and four incbos wide ihould bo placed diagonally to them it tho ditch end. Tho brace Bhould bo lroppod on tho front slab, so that its owor edgo shall Ho within an Inch of .ho ground, whllo tho other end ihould rest In tho anglo, between tho ilab and tho ond stako. A strip ot jon about throo and one-half foot long, hreo or four inches wido, and ono-halt )f an Inch thick may bo used for tho Made. An ordinary traco chain Is strong Miough to draw tho lmplomont, pro-rided pro-rided tho clevis Ib not fastened through a link. Tho chain should bo (v rapped around tho rear stake, thou passed over tho front slab. Raining tho :haln at this end of tho slab iillown .ho earth to drift paBt tho fuco of tho Irag. Tho other end of tho chain ihould bo passed through tho holo In .ho end of tho slab. II . II I.. Ill -I .. I - I 1 in |