Show ROADS AND PROPERTY there are miles of unimproved roads in the united states according to the american farm bureau federation and many thousands of additional miles which have been only slightly improved are farms located on the unimproved roads and on the slightly improve ed dirt roads less than american farms are located on roads which are passable every day in the year there can be no permanent agricultural prosperity so long as our farmers are isolated from their markets by a barrier of mud agricultural ri progress both social and economic will be retarded until our farmers have all year contact with the outside world through the medium of surfaced weatherproof roads low cost long wearing serviceable vi surfaces have been developed which make inake it possible to provide rural areas with practical year round roads when every state embarks on such a program we will have gone a long way toward permanently solving agricultures agri cultures problems |