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Show TRUCKS AND GOOD HIGHWAYS Farmers Almost Unanimous in Declaring Declar-ing Principal Disadvantage Is Poorly Built Roads. Vast increase In use of automobiles Is now to be depicted with motortrucks. motor-trucks. Their complete utility is testified tes-tified to by 93 per cent of the farmers farm-ers replying to the latest government inquiry. These same men agreed that the principal disadvantage of motortrucks is poor roads. For about eight weeks of the year, mud or snow is so bad that trucks cannot well he used. When all-the-year good roads are established, estab-lished, agricultural use of motortrucks will be universal. Motortrucks involve problems new to highways. Their tremendous loads utterly destroy roads which under horse-drawn vehicles were permanent. |