The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-03-19

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you do, do 1t well and complete your
work before you drop Ii, il you posi-
bly, can do it. What you do, do it
effectively. Get a dollars worth OF
work for every dollar spent. Make
the road business your business.
Where ever you have she means TO
do Ii, il you have a temporary cul
! vert, put something In that will stay
as long as you live. Concrete Is the
best structure We put In our culverts
up to where We call bridges. You
may have conditions that rock or
tile will be better, but they are all
put in to stay awhile. 10 the course
OF twelve or fifteen years you will
spend more on an old timber culvers
thanio q good concrete one. When
1t is possible to do this, make con.
crete culverts
d. all OF your work as early as
possible In the season. You can
leave your bitches and cleaning your
culverts and like work for the fall.
The reason is that earth work is,
where you have earth grading to do,
any scraping to do, 1t works better
earlyin the season that II does in the
later season, especially the summer
season when It becomes dry and hot
and hard. Especially In the fall, II
you throw up several inches OF earth
1t does not get as compact ss II does
in the spring, You have to have
drainage and you will have to have
a compact surface, you will have
wearing surface compacted to theex-
tent It will shed water. But IN the
fall when 1t is soft II cannot be avoid.
ed. Ii does not harden to such an
extent but what the water will seep
into is. lit freezes up In the winter
time you have frozen piece OF mud
there put in cold storage, you might
say, until spring when 1t thaws up
and then you have q piece of mud
which you would not have had II Is
had been done earlier in the season.
Ihave not seen many roads In this
couaty, but have seen numbers and
numbers In the state where il a maa
had been attempting to make first.
class mud hole he could not have sue
ceeded better. Some work is done so
1t Will be mud hole In the future. ]
am not saying you do that.
But the thing is to get the road so
there wOn't be mud holes to be pus
In cold storage for she winter.
The elements are constantly tear
ing down. An earth road does not
wear out. Ii Is simply washing out
and freezing out. The earth will not
wear out, you know that, but 1t will
wash and freeze away and be carried
away on the wheels, and with the
elements and the traffic tearing Is
down constantly, 1t is reasonable to
suppose Il will have TO be built up.
be put in good condition. And a.
ter road is once put In shape and
the crown put on 1t and bitches dug
so 1t will have drainage, it has got
to have continuous attention and
the best way to have continuous at
ssntion Is what Is called the old split
!og drag. A drag Is good thing no
matter what It Is. Anything that Is
dragged over a road is a good thing
for that road. The drag Is the best
thing we have to keep our roads In
shape.
In the hrst place 1t is inexpensive.
In the second place It is easy to haul
around.
l contend the big rood grader is
not what It Is claimed. l have made
up my mind they are doing more
harm than good. 1t is not In the
cost Of the implement you have; that
is not spelling anything. The road
graders have ruined more roads In
this country than anything else. 1
have down roads in the hot season
Of the year after the road grader,
where the road had had nice crown
and have seen them break that sur
face which was there for the purpose
OF shedding water. They have torn
that surface away and the weeds and
dirt are thrown up In the middle OF
the road where the travel should be.
l have seen wind rows and shocks oil
that stuff on earth roads that had
been good before the grader was put