Show AVERAGE HAUL OF PRODUCTS distance placed at 65 miles by department part ment of agriculture good roads are needed the federal department of agricula I 1 ture states that the average haul of farm products from field to market la is 65 miles the importance of good roads needs little more illustration than this with a solid roadbed a six mile haul is cheap and easy with the roads turned into raud mud holes as they are in many parts of our land at the critical crill cul season such a trip is frightfully expensive and sometimes impossible one southern paper fighting for better roads publishes a photograph of a four mule team hauling a single bale of cotton pounds and stuck in the mud less than a mile from the edge of the city this is an exception berh perhaps aps 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 |