| Show AVERAGE HAUL OF PRODUCTS distance placed at 65 miles by do da apartment part ment of agriculture agri culau re good roads are needed the federal department of agrical agri cul ture states that the average haul of farm products from field to market la in 05 miles the importance of good roads needs little more illustration than this with a solid roadbed a six mile haul la is cheap and easy with the roads roada turned into mud holes as they are jn in many parts of our land at the critical season such finch a trip Is fright i fully I 1 y expensive and sometimes m eai impossible hi h i one southern paper fighting tor for better roads publishes a photograph of a four mule team hauling a single bale of cotton ZOO BOO pounds and stuck in the mud less than a mile from the edge of the city this Is an exception tion perhaps but not a rare one there are thousands of cases in which it costs more to get wheat from farm to elevator than to carry it from the elevator across continents and oceans to the place where it Is ground and baked into bread chicago journal |
