Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-21
Wide Tires on Highways.

are TO retain the quallty " tHeii iteiu
and insure it's future usefulness.
Wide Tires on Highways.
In treatise just issued by the
highway department OF the state of
Ohio by Commissioner Huston partlc-
ular attention is called to the mistake
of making an active effort to improve
the country road, and then cutting the
Improvement to pieces by the use OIL
narrow tired wagons. The writer Xix
ems such a practice to the housewife
who buys a fine and costly gown, ana
then without affording any protection,
engages In kitchen work. 1T must be
admitted that there is some compare
son between the two methods. COM
menting upon the two types OF tires,
Commissioner Huston says:
TESTS have again and again been
made that prove, without doubt, that
wide-tired wagons are of lighter trac-
ton or draft than those equipped with
narrow tires. There is no disputing
the fact that wide-tired wagon on
bad roads, rutted by narrow tires, will
be of heavy draft, for the reason that
the wide tires require force to over
come the conditions due to the action
of narrow tires. Part of the expendi-
ture of force required In moving loads
on tired wagons over roads rut-
ted by the use of narrow tires is due
to the corrective effect of the broad
tires on the bad conditions resultant
from use of narrow tires and is prop
erly credit entry on the side OF good
roads.
THE action of the wide tire, in a
measure, takes the place of the i'm
provement resultant from the use OF
the road roller. Narrow tires on heav-
lily loaded wagons are road destroyers.
The same loads carried on wide tires
are road improvers.
1.-THE concentration of heavy loads,
and the use Of narrow tires. on re-
stricted surface, destroys the surface
bond and cuts cutters that carry and
hold water that softens the road sur
face and must necessarily but produce
and aggravate bad conditions. Wide
tires under the same loads compact,
smooth and firm the surface. The
change from narrow to wide tires is
one Of moderate cost, we'll repaid by
other conditions and absolutely neces-
sary to the economical maintenance OF
good roads"
Only a few states seem to UNDER
stand the Importance OF the wide tire
on the highway. Out of forty-five at
the beginning of this year, only seven
teen had laws referring to the use OF
the wide tire. Ten states provided for
rebates for using tires of certain
widths. Six give rebates In road work,
and four gave rebates of portion
Of the toll. Seven states provided pen
alties for the use Of tires OF certain
widths. It is suggestive fact that
ten Of the seventeen states are the
most progressive good road states in
the union.
Cows and Their Milk.
Here are some conclusions relative
to cows and their milk reached by an
English authority:
/. That when a COW is in full milk
and full flesh she will give her normal
quality of milk for at LEASE a limited
time, even though the quality and
quantity of food be very deficient
2. That when in good condition a
COW will take off her body whatever
is deficient in food, in order to give her
normal quality Of milk.
8. That an extra supply Of nutri-
tious food at all times increases the
quantity of milk, but the percentage
Of fat is not in any way improved by
it; if anything, the tendency is the
other way.
4. That an extra supply Of nutri-
tious food almost invariably very
slightly increases the solids not fat of
the milk. That ration poor in food
ingredients has a very slight tendency
to reduce the solids not fat in milk, but
has little appreciable effect on the fat.
S. That with poor ration, cow
in full weight will lose carcass weight,
while on a rich diet she will gain
weight.
6. That altho the percentage Of fat
in a cows milk may vary, we at pres
sent seem unable to control these vari-
ations or to account for them.
Z. THAT, for limited periods, up to
one month or there abouts, all ordinary
quantities and qualities Of food seem
to have no material effect on the quail
ity of the milk.
8. THAT some foods exercise a ma