The Springdale news., 1913-07-04

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 Sometimes water runs from land along the road into tae road and forms a little stream down the w4ael tra ks O. in the middle where the horses travel When driveWags ta.o farm yards are built across the side ditrhea they frequently form channels for water from the fa m yard to run into the road T@e pipes under drive~ays become filled with leaves or rubbish and the water can no longer run away. If the driyeWays that stop the ditch water were rebuilt so that no pipes were necessary and the ditch could be left open, much trouble from sur face water would be stopped
 Sometimes a road runs across low ground O. through a swamp where the road can not be drained by wee built higher like a. railroad em- bankment across such low land and made with crown, 1t wou d ba dry and hard Sometimes road passes through wat is called cut. This is a place where the earth has been dug out so that tine road eang0 over hill without being too steep. The water which always flows quietly under tie ground on hill siee is known as ground water In road cuts such water sometimes makes he road very muddy. and the road then needs what road bailde=s call under drainage A good kind of under drainage ts trench to 20 along under the side drain and about , fee deep and foot and half WIde III this trench a pipe is laid near the bottom and covered with loose stones 10 bigger than an egg When the trench is completely fill- d with loose stones the ground wat CT, instead of soaking into the roadway, will stop among the stones ani flow down the hill through the pipe
 To keep road smooth and crowned the best method is to drag 1t with road dtag 4 road drag : made easily with two halves of log which has been split. The log should be about or inches In thickness and about 6 or s feet long The two halves of the log are set feet apart with the smooth faces forward and upright They are then fastened together with braces setin hole bored through the log 4 pair of horses may be Used 70 drag the road and are hitched to chain fastened to the ffonGhaIf of Inc log The road drag should move forward 50 that it will slide past the smooth face os the log toward the center Of the road, thus forming the crown. The edges of the logs will smooth out the ruts The best way to drag is to begin at the side ditch and go tip one side of the road, then down the other h the next trip the drag should De started little Il erer the enter and the last trip over the road the drag may work close to the center itself Small ridges Of earth will be thrown i'll the horse track and smeared by the round side of the log smooth l. ovae taa road The smear!ng oi tae earth by the drag .s called padding and t tends to make the surface of the road smooth and V &ater-tighf after the sun comes o8t. Th= road ; always dragged q a#se. is los "a ned and not when it is des \ good, strong pair of hoesas win 0eIl-built drag can drag about 3 or I miles Of road in a day. ant its. the best Way 10 maintain good roads h every county 4ome farmer along each n. .es of raad should oan aHas and d1az me ro1d when il rains, aad ae would always End tle road iu good condition wien he goes to market