The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-03
Observation-Disclosures
GOOD ROADS NOTES.

N the Farm, Field and Firesidc

Wtdc Tired Wheels.
Z N the Farm, Field and Fireside
writes IL. p. Gibbs, of Hardesty
Md, / notice an article by G. S.
Bunstine, Oklahoma, headed
Doubtful About TiredWheels. ,
Now, speaking from the standpoint ol
farmer, not only consider that the
farmer that uses wide-tired wheels
benefits himself, but is also a public
benefactor, by helping to make better
roads. The wide tire packs and
smooths the moderately moist ground,
while the narrow tire will cut up and
render the same ground almost i'm.
passable.
L had, few years since, large LOT
Of manure that / wished to haul across
piece of cornstalk land in the spring
that whs quite soft. We commenced
with our narrow-tired farm wagons,
as had no other. We hadn't hauled
. dozen loads until the boys were
getting stuck with about every load,
and saw we either had to stop haul.
ing or get different wagon. 1 Dor.
rowed a four.inch tired wagon of a
neighbor, and we had no trouble get.
ting over that soft ground at all.
Of course, it does not matter SO far
as the wheel cutting into the ground,
whether the wheel is a high or low
one, but one man can go out and put
load of hay on a low-down wagon as
easily as two men can put the same
load on high wagon. A load OF
fodder the same. 1t is easier to put 6
load of manure, gravel, wood, or any
thing else that L can think of on the
low wagon than ON the high one, and
just as easy to get. it of, unless it is @
load Of grain that has to be shoveled
away up.
will venture this assertion, that o
man can have two wagons on the farm
--one wide.tired, low-down truck,
the other a narrow, high-wheeled
wagon, and he will hitch on to the
low, wide-tired wagon ten times tc
the high one once. / will admit they
run bad on the road where nothing
but the narrow tires are used, as they
are constantly cutting the side of the
rut. In some localities they are using
so many of the wide tires that the rut
Is cut out the proper width for them
in that case they run, in my opinion,
much easier than the narrow tires,
and in some localities that 1 know OF
they think it would be we'll if the
State would hold out some induce
ment for people to use the wide tires,
80 that in time they would all be wide
tires.
1 think this might be done by the
State offering to refund the district
road tax to any man using tire not
less than four inches, then when q
man had to buy new wagon it would
Oe an object for him to get the wide
iires. In short time there would be
more wide tires on the road than mar
row tires. After that, | think the
bounty could be taken off. / am now
lsing six-inch low wooden wheeled
,ruck that cuts under, so you can turn
square around, and [ would not ex-
change it for any four high up, mar
.ow-tired wagons l ever saw, if / had
20 keep and use them. OF course, it
,uns hard when the ground is very
soft, but can go with it where you
,ould not go at all with the narrow
Tres. think there has been less i'm
provement in the farmers wagon in
ihe last fifty years than any other one
Thing the farmer has had to use. 1t
las no spring, it wants one-half an
icre TO turn it around, and the sooner
ihe old style form is done away with,
ihe better it will be for the farmer
md every one else that has to travel
;he roads.