Show D B I 1 L TO MAINTAIN GRAVEL ROADS never hard and smooth enough to prevent immediate rutting by wheels of wagons gravet gravel roads tire are never hard find and smooth enough when opened to travel to prevent almost immediate rutting by the wheels of 0 heavily loaded wagons in fact a gravel which contains enough clay to pack anck immediately under tho the roller or in a few days under travel vill always prove to give ft a muddy road when the frost is going out in the spring and during prolonged wet spells at other seasons of 0 the year if such gravels are found on a road they can be greatly improved by covering the surface with a thin laser of sandy gravel applied when the road Is soft and allowed to mix under travel the road being kept smooth by the frequent use of the road drag on any gravel road dragging with a suitable road drag should begin after the first good rain following the completion of tile the road and be continued after each subsequent rain until the WA k 46 0 6 V I 1 I 1 ak well kept gravel road road ond surface becomes so hard and smooth that heavily loaded wagons make no impression on the surface but dragging must be frequent the first fall until winter sets sri in and the following spring until the middle of may or the first of june after that the dragging will not be very effective unless the rains are of long enough duration to soften the surface slightly and may therefore be less frequent but dragging will be found very effective and efficient in the late fall and in the spring when the frost Is coming coining out and before the gravel Is fully settled |