Show ROAD GOOD WORK OF A RO ROAD AD DRAG implement should be used property properly a at right time repair all ruts and depressions after two days of rain says a writer in Il hoards dairyman we took tin an eight mile drive out into the country to buy some pigs one piece of road was like a city boulevard liou levard only better despite Us its being only a gravel road there was little mud or water rind and one would would have nave thought that there had bad been only rain enough to settle the dust instead of tile the big rainstorm wo we inquired and found that two neighbors had made it a practice to alternate in going over this road with a road drag otter after every rain just beyond we came to 0 o a piece of road muddy slippery and full of chuck holes that sent us up a ulle toile for every mile covered the only difference between these two pieces 3 of road was a road drag and an hours time spent when field work could not be done we estimate that it took twice asmuth gasoline to cover the un dragged road multiply our experience by the dozens of 0 teams and autos going over this muddy road and then compute the expense of failure to use the road drag that was doubtless rotting away in some fence corner we do not now have in mind the demands of 0 the good roads extremist but are considering what may be done and what should be done with the common dirt road it does more harm than good as a general rule to plow up the sod on the sides of the traveled track and pile it up in big lumps in the center of the track leaving them there to be broken up by passing vehicles and tha loosened dirt washed away by the rain or blown away by the wind keep all the sod grass roots and other ae 14 perspective view of splitlog split log drag trasa out of the road bed it merely decays and makes ready for a splendid hole to form whatever is worth doing at all Is worth doing well no part of a repaired highway should be left until its surface has been thoroughly and even ly compacted and shaped to let all the water run off and when as will most always happen ruts and depressions make their appearance they should be smoothed down clown filled and well compacted so BO that water may licit hot remain lu lc them to soften the ground and permit further damage by the traffic when using the road drag use it properly at the right time dont go out when the road Is too wet met or too dry take it when the mud will make 1 a I good mortar and will puddle down tike the little girls mud cakes or the ina macons ions mortar |