The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-06-18

each side 81 tie AVERAGE country road
Ha believes TINT highway forty fest
Wide. instead 81 sixty would be ample
fer aH requirements. could be mure
@silp and more eheaply kept ln good
condition and afanes thal the unneees
sarV twenty feet e returned 81 cuiti-
mtion Woail mean four and fhreeauar.
tel million d9loTs added To the wealth
81 tie state eaeh year, 50 f0r every
man, oman md chili If ts borders
The governor outlined fis plan before
the recent convention 81 the Iowa Inpe-
menf Dealers association Ihe average
country road ae pointed out is xts
feet wide whereas forty leet Is sntl
eient The result Il that the middle
aud sides % he Trad GROW be q weeds
and make nnsiehtiv h'rhway TIE two
channels 81 traffic being separated and
h0rdered by unused ana uns'ghtiH weed
rows and bitches This twenty feet
0f land might far better BE titled and
he producing wheat and corn urged the
governor
A itte investigation diseioses the
81 Governor CAROLS plan,
NOT only for iowa but for al sgrieui
tnl states There are 100000 miles
Of country roads II iowa This equals
s8aB eefe 50 land Some az these
roads are main arteries ~ communities.
ti0n and transportation, Others are little
more than lanes. weed checked and ruftv
The Iowa road law requires highway
10 Be st least forty feet wide and never
more than sixty-slx feet The average
width is sixty feet Governor Carroll's
plan II reduce the width from sixty
Ia forty feet would result IN cutting
down the number Of acres devoted to
roadwav IS third. : total Of 208687
acres. Assuming 800 TO Be a fair aver
age price fof Iowa farm land nun-
dreds of farm are being sold nj $3.50 70
5000 an acre the land thus restored 70
farming would Ike worth S20,a6l 90. A.
Stunning the annual ret revenue per acre
IA Iowa to 81 80 another conservative
figure rand the veaflg income from Tie
restored land would Re s3000.000 From
state to Farm lts Roads" in July
Technical World Magazine
"This Summer when the THERMOMETERS
eoss up u eighty ninety and ore hun
dred the death faba among the habies
III your town will 40 up Hith tbs mer'
curry unless sou women and mothers
do something to prevent ii says Rob.
ert W Braeie iu Noman's Home Com
nanion for June When tie hot wealth
er comes, You VIII an3, ifyou have eyes
to see. as q good physician once put FL
he babies WIZ die Oh AXE flies
Won belong 70 ladisp committee
in your church Consult your pastor
and ace IL you cannot get room IN
the church or Sunday school in which
to hold mothers glass at least once
a week from the first Of June to the
middle Of September Il the church does
not seem tie Sitting place use room
ii the public school Why should our
.pleadid school bailding be idle OH sum-
nier when there are mothers to teach
ana babies lives to be saved2 Any room
more than ten BY ten feeV with lots ot
air ana sunshine with do.
rhen get sour city health officer or
vour good family physician to meet the
mothers regularly at least once q week
If YOU can afford It, employ q trained
nurse Ia help organize the class and
to f0ii0W tNe Al0kitfH unto tNNtA AtviAN@
with her practical knowledge and de-
served authority Bait # this Is cut
of the question, volunteer your own
services,
"Then invite tie mothers n your town
10 come % your class Fl az first they
ane shy. visit them IN their homes and
explain what YOU have 70 offer And
II they are still unwilling to come. give
them home instruction teach them how
rs ventilatp the room where the baby
sic pr teach them nnder the guidance
of your physician how 20 dress ths
baby appropriately urge them 70 feed
their infants naturally and never tol
wean them while tie weather IS very
hor
And # they have bottle babies stim
ulate their interest 81 the purity 81 the