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Show HIGHWAY UPKEEP IMPORTANT Gravel and Macadam Surfaces Need Constant Watching to Prevent Rut3 and Holes. If experience has taught anything It has demonstrated the truth of the old saying that a stitch In time saves nine. Women will concede that. The farmer has learned that the time taken te drive a staple In the fence will save hours of hunting for the hogs or cattle, and the damage they may do before they are returned again to their lot. It is just as extravagant to neglect the highways, says the Successful Farmer. No matter what surfacing has been used, It needs watching nnd repair. Gravel and macadam especially espe-cially need constant watching to prevent pre-vent ruts and chuck holes. Every hole becomes two holes very soon because the toss given car or wagon by a hole pounds another hole next to It. Itecon. structlon and largo repairs soon run Into money. A shovelful of gravel oT rock at the right time will prevent further fur-ther cost. The wear and tear and cost of repairing re-pairing highways is nothing as com-pared com-pared to the cost of damages to cars nnd cargoes Mat result from these chuck holes in the road3. Tax money ls surely squandered when spent on highway Improvement and then nothing ls spent on little repairs. re-pairs. . One man in a car or motorcycle motorcy-cle can pr.trol many miles of road once a week, at least, and repair nil slight damages to the surface as they occnr and save the taxpayers a lot of money. |