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Show GOOD ROADS ARE PRO .TABLE Loss to Farmers In This Country Trscsable to Bad Thoroughfaree la Inconceivable. The subject of good roads la like the poor. It Is always with us. Every season the topic recurs with painful Insistence. Even In this enlightened enlighten-ed age when Inventive genius Is doing do-ing everything that can be done to Improve Im-prove the conditions of the country, ,r;re are places where tbe roads are ao seriously neglected that one can acarcely pass over them with a medium me-dium load. Tbe loss to the farmers In this country that can be traced directly to bad roada. la almost inconceivable, aays Klrnball'a Dairyman. It la not the purpose to try to compute this account here. Tbe expense of hauling, haul-ing, the wast of time In going for repairs or In doing other necessary errands are all Increased by poor roads. These are conditions of eco-nomlnal eco-nomlnal Importanco but there Is another an-other aide to tbe good road question that la of equal Importance and that Is the social effect The farm that ta located on a well kept, well Improved highway la always al-ways nearer town than the one whose road connecting It with the market la rough or poorly kept The time will come when people will aay they are 20 mlnutea from town rather than two miles from town. With the changes that are being mado In inelh- : w ;,,; V,.' J ' . I i ' ;.' .4",. V; ''-v Fin Exampls of Macadam Road, Well Maintained. ods of transportation change will also be made In roads There Is sure to be an Influence on the social life sf a community that can be directly traced to these methods of highway improvement The home that Is located on a well improved highway Is always more attractive; at-tractive; It is worth more when put upon tbe real estate market and It la a more pleasant place to live because tbe social Intercourse between tbe oelghbors sod the town which must always be a social center, la mor free. Tbera Is less Isolation and tbla Is what maies life In tbe country really worth while. The farm home that Is well Improved, that Is equipped equip-ped as such homes may be now days, that Is located on a highway which puts the town and town friends almost al-most next door to you, leaves little 10 be desired. There Is still another point In connection con-nection with the good road, and that Is the attractlveneva of a well kept bard road bed. Who has not seen from the car window a long smooth road reaching out Into tbe country bounded on all aides by green pastures pas-tures or well kept fields passing over gentle hills and through shaded valleys val-leys leading ever onward? 8uch a road exerts sn Influence that Is ud-ail ud-ail likable, calling tbe automobile en. thuilant and the one who loves to b out of doors beckoning hlra t roue out and speed over tbe hard, uiiooth. floorlike highway. On such a road every turn offers new encbant-meul. encbant-meul. Every change of scene offers new blnditiKS snd adjust menta of color col-or effect Purely the well kept road Is "a thing of beauty and a ioy forever for-ever " |