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Show FEW VALUES IN GOOD ROADS Added Freedom and Pleasures Are Among 8ome of the Real Benefits of Lower Cost of Hauling. Five miles to the picnic ground Iocs that mean for you an hour's bsrd work guiding your team over "chugs" ind ruts and around and through mud- ( holes, with tired horses and soiled , clothes when you get there, or does , It mean a rant drive of thirty minutes or lees with no exertion on j rour part and little on the part of , rour team? t In the winter when the plays and lectures rome to your town, can you Irlve In and arrive as neat and calm is any townsman, or do you think of Ul the long stretches of bad roads t set ween you and the town hall, and leclde to stsy at home rather than ! 'ace them? Good roads are needed not only because be-cause they save the farmer money ind Increaae land values, but because n a very real sense they bring him learer to all the rest of the world, ind enable blm and bis family to ihara tn pleasures and privileges iften out of bis reach when roads are ad. aays tbe Progressive Farmer. When you go to figure on the cost ind the value of improved highways, lo not forget that they have a real ind a great value In the added enjoy- c nent and the added freedom they iring; and that this Is a benefit not ess real than a reduction In the cost li if tbe hauling you do. |