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Show HAUL PRODUCTS TO MARKET Enormous Amount Carried Over Country Coun-try Roads Shows Necessity of Better Condition. The necessity of keeping country roads in good condition Is shown hy a report recently complied by the bureau of markets and crop estimates, United States Department of Agriculture, showing the extent to which they are used In hauling farm products to market. mar-ket. According to the report, which shows the tonnage of il products hauled on country roads, giving the yearly average for the period from 191." to 1919. there were 27 tons of these 11 crops hauled for every 100 acres of land. The average tonnage of the 11 crops hauled on country roads each year for the period mentioned men-tioned amounted to S0..'0O.(''H) tons. The 11 crops referred to in the report are corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye. rice, flaxseed, cotton (Including seed), to-jacco, to-jacco, potatoes and cultivated hnv. |