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Show MAINTAINING GOOD ROAD3. No earth road can be maintained in good condition unless It bo so constructed con-structed as to drain well, and unless it be kept free from ruts and holes. The best method of maintaining an earth road, especially a prairie road, Is by tho systematic uso of tho road drag. A sand road Is never good un-dor un-dor any circumstances, but certainly Is not Improved by crowning. A sand road Is at its' best when moist, so it should be left fiat No ono wants a sand road, so, If possible, clay should bo added to, and mixed with the sand, making what Is known as a sand clay road. Tho old way, and It Is used today by many, of filling a mud hole with brush with a little earth on top, cannot be too Btrongly condemned, and Is only pormlsslblo Jn cases of emorgency, when It is Impossible to drain the hole or to get sand or Btono to fill it. Tho overseer or foreman should in dry weather center his work on such places until tho road 1b raised to a sufflciont height to drain well. Many overseers have brush hauled two mllea to fill a mud hole, when band is within shoveling distance of It. If farmors do not tako a community commun-ity Interest in thcMmprovomont of tho roads and put their shoulders to tho 1 wheel wo will BUrcly remain "stuck 1 In tho mud,'' Colorado Is a wonderful sugar pro- 1 luclng ntato! ' |