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Show The Next Forward Step For Agriculture The American Farm Bureau Federation, Fed-eration, an organization representing represent-ing close to 2,000,000 farmers, is leading an aggressive campaign to provide agricultural areas in all states with year-round, all-weather, improved roads. According to this authority, 5,000,-000 5,000,-000 of the"6,250,000 American farm are now on roads which are impassable im-passable from two to five months of the year. Yet the farmer pays seven per cent of the total road tax It is contended that wise allocation alloca-tion of funds for farm-to-market roads would provide all the necessary highways without causing an increase in-crease in taxes. A nation-wide program of rural vend building to provide fanners with quick cutlets to their markets would be of inestimable benefit to agriculure. It would promote community, com-munity, state and national welfare, pen up new territory and relieve traffic on congested main highways. The farmer, as one of our foremost fore-most taxpayers, and as a representative represen-tative of the most necessary of all industries,-deserves a road system which is second to none. A new ?ra of rural life has come into being, be-ing, thrcitgh the use of automobiles, telephones, electricity, tractors and other time and labor saving agencies. agen-cies. Good farm to market roads should be the next great forward stop. |