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Show increased from 57 per cent of the enrollment before I be roads were improved to 77 per cent after. Several small schools were consolidated. Between 1909, the year preceding the building of good roads, and 19-13, 19-13, the year following their completion, the shipment of forest products, the principal products of the county, increased in-creased more than 78 per cent The increase during this period in the poudtry business in the county was 77 per cent, and in dairying 110 pqr cent. In Dinwiddie County, Va., the average daily attendance for children for 13 schools on the improved roads was G3.4 per cent of the enrollment in 1912-13, while the average attendance at-tendance for all other schools in the county was 56 per cent. Several schools consolidations have been effected, larger school buildings have been constructed, con-structed, and pupils have been transportated to school at the expense of the educational system sys-tem since thte road improvements improve-ments were made. Truck gardening gar-dening and diarying, which were profitable only within "3 miles of the principal market town of the county before the road improvement, are now carried on profitably within a 7-mile radius. In Lee County, Va., a considerable con-siderable industry has been , built up following the road improvements im-provements in the .shipment of tan bark, extract wood, and pulp wood, products which not be profitably hauled over the unimproved road. The improved im-proved highway system has attracted at-tracted buyers of farm products who travel from farm to farm and furnish a new cash market for the farmers. There has been . a 25 per cent increase in buggies bug-gies sold by a county vehicle ; factory. 1 In Wise County, Va., social conditions have been bettered since the good roadswere constructed, con-structed, many farmers along . the improved highways having built new homes or improved old ones, adding sanitary conveniences. con-veniences. School attendances having increased materially, but since compulsory ' attendance attend-ance regulations went into effect ef-fect about the time the improved improv-ed roads were completed, the influence of the two factors could not be determined separately. separ-ately. Several school consolidations consoli-dations have been made. Automobile registrations in ! Franklin county, N. Y., increased in-creased from 371 before the , road improvement in 1912 to , S53 after the improvement in 1914, and two automobile bus . lines connecting distant towns i in the county were established ; as soon as the improved roads : were opened. There has been a notable . stimulation of dairying and general diversification on the farms of Dallas county, Ala., since the improvement of the roads in that county. In the section of Lauderdale county, Miss., where most of the roads have been improved, the school attendance increas-L increas-L ed from 72 per cent of the en-. en-. rollment in 1912, just after the - road work started, to 81 per cent in 1913 after the com- '. pletion of the work. Several i school consolidations hav; i been effected. In Manitee county, Fla., - which produces chiefly fruit ; and vegetables, these products , could not be hauled over the - sandy roads before the im-. im-. provement was made, except - at prohibitive cost. In one - year, 1912-13, following the completion of the good roads , the area in vegetables increas- ed about led about 1,500 acres. WHAT GOOD ROADS DO i Increase Scliool Attendance, Improve Social Conditions. ; and Enlarge Business Trans- actions. i A 15 per. cent decrease in the ; proportion of the available i children attending schools took place following the construction construc-tion of good roads in 8 counties studied by the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering of the department it is shown e in a recent publication of the f office, Department Bulletin Xo. y 393. The improvement in roads was followed also in several of the counties, the reporl show, by consolidation of a number of tiie little one-room schools into graded schools which give the pupils bettei y educational advantages; by a - developement of various industries; indus-tries; and by social improvements improve-ments due to easier intercorse These improvements are related re-lated closely to increases ir land values and decreases ii: hauling costs, effects also traced trac-ed to the construction of improved im-proved roads. The studies were made in Spotsylvania Dinwiddie, Lee and Wise Coun-tines, Coun-tines, Va. ; Franklin County, X V.; Dallas Counuty, A'u, ; Lauderdale Lau-derdale County, Miss, and Manatee Man-atee County, Fla. In Spotsylvania County, Va. '. the average daily attendant |