The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-28

ottumwa (Ia.) Courier.
 It is often hard to impress upon the farmer and farm owner the de- man who lives on farm could be enlisted in the cause of good roads the greatest task of the association or ganEsd S to reae Pn io@a especially. there are so many bad roads that it is impossible to pick out any one county or any one dls- this particular. This Is because the farmers themselves do not. in great many instances, pay enough attention to the roads and the manner in which they should be treated.
 The subject of road building is an important one from every standpoint, but most of all to the man who lives in the country and must drive to town whenever he wishes to make the trip. He must drive when he wants to market produce. he must haul his ma chinery and supplies over the road and 1t Is important to him that the The city dweller feels the need for good roads only when he journeys in to the country. driving for pleasure or on an automobile trip. He can oo the farmer but he. too. Is benefited when the roads are improved.
 The farmer gets direct results for the improvement of the roads, be- rect increase in the value of his farm and its products. On this subject the Good Roads Magazine of recent date has a clearly written comprehensive editorial, which is here published in full It should be read thoroughly by every property owned and business
 Tn a competitive market the pro ducer pays the cost of transportation cents a bushel in New York and Chi. these markets receives forty cents less the freight from his town to the city market. and the charge Of the com mission house for selling. That the way station to the market Is so. evil dent that 1t needs no discussion.
 "The question of the expense or hauling from the farm to the rail looked. but it is worthy or serious
 Assume that trHvss western sr ISfs;nr NHT York pd cost eosteS quality Hdfs and and yield Both are selling at the same price in New will be as much greater than the Michigan mans as he Is nearer the market, or as his freight rate is less
 But assume that the M@ichigan @ d man tn the market in a day, while the New York man. with poor roads. can draw but one load day, eacn HlTlnS man and team to do the work at $2 per day. If the loads averaged nfty bushels each, the New York mans expense for hauling Is four cents a bushel while the Michigan's mans Is but one cent, 8 difference that about equalizes the diffreneces in railroad
 @The lesson is that if from poor roads, the farmer nearer the market is unable to compete in highway trans portatton with hls more distant broth er he loses his natural advantage In tho market. In the case assumed it is three cents a bushel. and on 15" .n bushels per acre amounts to $4.oO. which is interest at 6 per cent. on a principal of $76 per acre, which repre- sents the depreciation inflicted on his potato field by the bad roads.
 Again. he should find himself in competition only with the farmers within the circle formed by points equally distant from the market with himself, but difficulty in hauling puts him on an equal with this man l,V2V miles farther away and places him m competition with the farmers incIuoeo in this larger circle
 without claiming mathemattcaI ae- curacy in these assumed statements E! they will serve to illustrate one or tns vital clements contained in the SoO.- | .u.DG0 constitutional amendment prop, | osition in New ork, which IS: tnSl | its adoption will in effect move haIl | the farms in that State several nun
 dred miles near the market, And, al | crement oI value in~ farm lana, IL II
 boldly asserted that the entire cost o | the improvement will be added to th' 1 invested value of the farms