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Show - 1 1 ? ! ENTRANCE ROADS FOR FARMS Engineers of Bureau of Public Roads Give Advice on Application of Bituminous Material. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Owners of large farms and rural estates seeking a more satisfactory type of entrance road have applied to the bureau of public roads of the United States department of agriculture agricul-ture for advice regarding the application applica-tion of bituminous material on main entrance and much-traveled farm lanes. , The bureau's engineers point out that such applications may be made successfully on any farm road which has already been constructed of stone, gravel, or- other similar material, and is in a thoroughly compacted and reasonably rea-sonably smooth condition. A coal-tar preparation applied cold, or an asphal-tic asphal-tic oil, can be used and if applied by the farm employees, the cost should not ' exceed seven or eight cents a square yard for materials. The compacted com-pacted gravel or stone road should be thoroughly cleaned of dust and the bitumen applied with ordinary sprinkling sprink-ling pots from which the perforated nozzle has been removed and the spout carefully flattened into a symmetrical rectangular opening about one-quarter Surface Treatment of Macadam Road With Bituminous Material and Stone Chips. of an inch wide, so that the material may be poured in a broad, flat stream. If a large amount of work is to he done, a specially designed pouring can may be purchased of dealers in road equipment. Care should, be taken to have an even distribution, and the quantity applied should bo approximately one-half gallon to a square yard of road surface. After applying the bituminous mnterial, clean gravel or stone chips should be spread evenly over the surface, and if possible, rolled with a lawn or field roller. Where gravel or chips are not available, clean, coarse sand will serve as covering material. It should be spread in sufficient quantity to prevent pre-vent the bituminous material from adhering ad-hering to tires of passing vehicles. Attention is called to the fact that this treatment shoirkl not be made where drainage from the stables or barns will flow over it. Where mud-holes mud-holes are likely to form around hitching hitch-ing posts or at stable entrances, if a more durable pavement is desired, a section of concrete slab should be laid. ROAD OUT OF SOLID GRANITE Will Lead From Estes Park to Glen Lake, Connecting With Lincoln Highway. In the Rocky mountains, Colorado, aided by the federal government, is building eight miles of road out of solid granite. The road, which will lead from Estes Park in the Rockies to Glen Lake, connecting with the Lincoln Lin-coln highway and forming a part of the transcontinental highway, will bring Switzerland to America. The road will cost, when completed, more than $25,000 a mile. BIG ROAD PROGRAM PLANNED Alabama to Issue $25,000,000 in Bonds to Match Federal Appropriation for Highways. Tlans to issue $23,000,000 in bonds to match a similar federal appropriation appropria-tion for building roads in Alabama wore set on foot at a meeting of the Alabama Highway Improvement association. asso-ciation. The project includes a three-mill three-mill levy by counties for maintenance. A constitutional amendment to authorize au-thorize this project will be asked of the next legislature. Country's Urgent Necessity. The most urgent necessity of our country in the immediate future is good roads, permanent roads that can be used 12 months in each year. |