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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
ROADS PAY FOR THEMSELVES
accidents Related Whereby Several
Southern Farmers Profited by I'm
provements Made by State.

The direct effect that changing bad
roads into good roads has upon land
values and marketing prices, as we'll
as the general economic welfare OF
the community, is shown in several
concrete illustrations which were
gathered by the United States de-
partment Of agriculture. In Lee
county, Virginia, a farmer owned 100
acres which he offered to sell for ST..
500. In 1908 his road was improved.
and although the farmer fought the
improvement, he has since efused
$4,000 for his farm. A nearby tract
of 1873 acres is said to have been sold
for $4,000. After road improvement,
the same farm was sold for 5000. In
Johnson county, Alabama, the people
voted a bond issue for $250,000 for
road improvement. The selling value
at that time was Sc to SIS per acre.
The selling price is O from SIS to
$25 per acre.
In another state, W farmers lfv-
ing at equal distance from a cotton
market learned by telephone that cot
ton a gone up In price n dollar
per bale. The farmer on the bad
road hauled one bale of cotton which
was all he could get owe that road.
The other farmer on the good road
was able to haul four bales. The man
on the good road gained four dollars
by the rise in price, while his neigh
Dor on the bad road gained only n
dollar. A farmer in Sullivan county,
Tennessee, had 100 bushels of Irish
potatoes which he intended to market
during the winter. Owing to bad
roads, he was unable to haul the pota-
toes at all. They rotted In the cellar.
In the meantime, the price Of pota-
toes at a market point went as high
as $1.40 per bushel.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
FEW VALUES IN GOOD ROADS
Among Some Of the Real Benefits
of Lower Cost Of Hauling.

Five miles to the picnic ground
does that mean for you an hours hard
work guiding your team over "chugs"
and ruts and around and through mud
holes, with tired horses and soiled
clothes when you get there, or does
it mean a pleasant drive OF thirty
minutes or less with no exertion on
your part and little on the part Of
your team?
In the winter when the plays and
lectures come to your town, a you
drive in and arrive as neat and calm
as any townsman, or do you think OF
all the long stretches of bad roads
between you and the town hall. and
decide to stay ut home rather than
face them?
Good roads are needed not only be-
cause they save the farmer money
and increase land values, but because
in a very real sense they bring him
nearer to all the rest of the world,
and enable him and his family to
share in pleasures and privileges
often out of his reach when roads are
bad. says the Progressive Farmer.
When you 60 to figure on the cost
and the value Of improved highways,
do not forget that they have a real
and a great value In the added enjoy.
ment and the added freedom they
bring; and that this Is a benefit not
less real than a reduction in the cost
Of the hauling you do.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
MEANS OF PREVENTING DUST
Proper Spreading Of Tar on Maca-
damlzed Roads viii Dc Work e.
fectlvely-Roads Last Longer.

At the recen road conference in
Paris 1t was decided that the proper
spreading OF tar on macadamiZed
roads Is an effective means of pre-
venting dust. The method Is largely
used in France. About one-third Of
a gallon Of tar Is used for each square
yard OF surface. The roads last
longer, and the cost Of maintenance
Is reduced. In the United States oil
Is employed to a considerable extent
to proven dust and preserve the sur.
face Of roads. The oil is spread from
carts, during the making of the road,
to the amount Of one or two gallons
per square yard. The French road en-
gineers recommend the planting Of
trees along roadsides as a means of
preventing dust. In France all roads
not less than 33 feet wide are re-
Quired to have q single line Of trees
on each side, at distances apart vary.
ing from 16 to 81 feet.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
ROADS AND COST OF LIVING
Good Road Is Not Only Convenience
and Pleasure, But Is an Actual
Economic Necessity.

Until very recently the vast major
ity of people failed to understand that
the good road is not a mere country
dweller's convenience, or the means
to motorists pleasure, but that it is
an actual economic necessity, says
Suburban Life Magazine. That 1t
costs the farmers of this country more
for a ten-mile haul of produce from
farm to town than 1t does to ship that
produce from New York to London,
is a fact. That 1t costs farmers abroad
from one-half to one-tenth as much to
haul a ton a mile on a road as it
does the farmers Of this country, is
another fact. That practically every
pound Of flesh and bushel of wheat we
must travel over a road at
least once and sometimes twice be-
fore we eat 1t, IL q third fact. The
three are the answer to one part OF
the question: "Why does 1t cost so
must to live?" Someone has to pay
for the depreciation in the value of
horses and vehicles caused by poor
roads. Someone has to pay for the
extra time 1t takes to haul cotton to
market, when two mules are required
to haul two bales ten miles in one
day, when on a good road the same
two mules could haul "a bales In the
same time with the same effort.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
can be kept there, too. He adds:

can be kept there, too. He adds:
The c%ultivating of the woman is a
bigger job today than making poor
ground yield. Modern education must
not take away the cornerstone of
motherhood. The present price Of wo-
mans hearts and poor cooking is send
ing more men to Hades than the
Saloons"
Support is thus furnished for Secre-
tary Houston's action in sending out
letters to $4,000 farmers wives, ask
ing them to make suggestions for i'm
proving life on the farm. 1t has been
estimated that a woman on a farm car
ries about a ton OF water every day.
The water must be carried from the
pump to the kitchen, and after being
used must be thrown out. With the
washing of clothes, drawing of water
for cooking or bathing purposes or
a ton of water is a conservative esti-
mate of what the average woman on
a farm without proper plumbing must
carry.
The farmers ought to learn that it
will be cheaper in the long run to buy
an electric motor and put in their own
plumbing. The women really have the
hard end Of the work on the farm. The
husband gets out in the field and does
his work in the fresh air and under a
healthy sun. The ONE must do
almost as much manual labor and
work longer hours indoors.
We have been teaching the farmer
how to raise better crops and get bet
ter crops and get better roads, but
until Secretary Houston sent out the
letters to the farm wives, we have
done nothing for the women, upon
whom, as a matter of fact, the success
of the farm largely depends. 1t is no
wonder that the women have been
anxious to get away from farm life.
They have a much easier time in the
big cities, where they don't have to
feed hungry farm hands.
If the young men are to be kept off
tie farms, their mothers must be made
more satisfied with the life. The way
to keep the husbands, boys and girls
there is to give the mother more hap
piness. If she is contented, she will
see to it that the others are %contented.
Both Secretary Houston and Mr.. San
dell are on the right track.-Washing-
ton Post.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
ROADS SHOULD BE DRAGGED
Systematic and Persistent Use Of Drag
viii Result In Very Great
Amount Of Improvement.

The great benefit to dirt roads
use OF the road drag Is certainly SO
plain in Illinois and other states,
this year that no sensible person
a doubt that the use of the road.
drag should be provided for by law,
says the Illinois Farmer. The sys-
tematic dragging of earth roads will
result In much greater improvement
than any other work on them costing
the same. The road drag makes a very
great improvement on all roads except
those that are quite sandy. This year
has demonstrated that nine-tenths or
the roads Of Illinois, Iowa, etc., can
be made, by systematic dragging, as
good as could we'll be desired for at
least nine'months of the year. Roads
In Illinois and ~neighboring states that
have been well dargged for three or
four years past have been this
summer better for both heavy traffic
and automobiles than the brick or
stone paved streets Of the cities. It
takes several years Of systematic drag
ging to make earth roads as good as
they a be made with the drag. Each
year toughens and hardens the road
and also lessons the necessary work
With the drag.
Certainly every state with soil simt-
lar to that of Illinois should have a
law requiring road officials to have
the roads dragged whenever needed,
Of course providing for the payment
for this work out Of the road taxes.
Both farmers and town people should
begin work at once to secure such q
law. 1t will take real work to get such
a law for It will not make necessary
high-priced engineers and commits
sions. or give for big graft in
any n spot. Fortunately the roads
can be properly dragged by farmers
and others and this road improvement
can be made without taking it out Of
the hands of local officials who can be
watched closely.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
EXHIBITION OF ROAD MODELS
Greatest Display Ever Shown In Any
Part Of World VIII Be Seen at
San Francisco In 1915.

Arrangements are to be made by
the United States department of agri-
culture, through Logan Waller Page,
director of the Office of public roads,
to place on exhibition in 1915 the
greatest collection Of road models ever
displayed in any part of the world.
The models will furnish exact dupli-
Gates of the old Roman roads, French
roads, and all of the various types Of
modern roads. together with miniature
models Of road machinery operated
by electricity.
The office Of public roads made an
exhibit Of road models for the first
time at the Alaska ukon-Pacifc ex-
position. The ain was to put on view
such striking examples In miniature
Of road models that visitors would
not only appreciate the beneficent ef-
fects of improved highways. but would
at the same time be able to under
stand the methods of their construc-
ton.
Since the Alaska-Yukon-Pacifc ex-
position closed, the exhibition has
been displayed at various other expo
sitions and fairs. Since that time the
collection has been greatly augmented,
until every single type Of road is
now represented and every known
device used in the making of roads
has been reproduced in miniature.
AS q result of the instruction fur
nished by these road models, many
farmers have joined forces to improve
their own highways, and the road
building movement has had q great
impetus.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
ROAD
COST OF ROAD MAINTENANCE
Satisfactory Work Can Be Done
for Less Than $40 Per Mile.

(By c. F. CHASE, North Dakota Agri-
cultural Cllege.)
At the home farm in southeastern
Nebraska there Is a stretch of land
one-half mile In length that we have
dragged for seven years. Only once
during this period has this road been
worked with anything but a drag. Two
years ago the side bitches were
cleaned with the common road grader.
A careful record of the time taken
to drag this road has been kept. Two
trips for n man and II team requir-
Ing n hours time for a single drag
ging is the basis taken. The first ear
we dragged it Is times, the second. Is,
the third II, and the fourth II and the
fifth IA times or II draggings of m
hours time In five years. This is 80
cents al hour for a man and team Is
$4.26 a year for the one-half mile. For
a mile 1t would be 1852 annually. An
other road in the immediate vicinity
cost less than $40 per mile annually.
A case Is noted in Public Roads Bulle-
tin No. 4S, United States department
of agriculture, where the cost Of SIM
liar maintenance of roads in Arkansas
was $l1 per mile. State Engineer
Gearhart OF Kansas puts the range Of
cost for dragging at from 81 to $40.
The cost for North Dakota should
not cost more than so a mile, while
In most cases it would be much less,
Of the soil, the rainfall, traffic and
grade. AS an average for all dirt roads
| would place the annual cost OF main
tenance at $3.50 per mile or $3.50, TAO
10 drag in a satisfactory manner the
roads in North Dakota one year.
The total expenditure on public
roads OF North Dakota outside Of
towns in 1911 was $691 $40. If proper
ly organized, and If the people were
educated. we could properly maintain
our earth road with the present road
funds and have $230,S00 left for
bridges, new construction, etc.
The national office Of public roads
recommends the patrol system com
bining dragging. The Nebraska legis-
lature passed a law that Is not unlike
the patrol system. The substance of
the law Is as follows:
The graded roads In each county are
to be divided into road dragging dis
tricts by the county boards. One per,
son to each township Is to be ap.
pointed superintendent Of dragging,
and is to receive moi more than $3.50
per day.
Roads shall be dragged whenever
necessary, and all the sections Of the
highway shall be dragged at once.
County boards may levy a tax Of not
to exceed one mill for road dragging.
Where four horses are used on an
eight-foot drag, the rate of payment is
rs cents for each mile OF highway
dragged both ways. Where a seven
foot drag and two or three horses are
used, 60 cents Is the prescribed rate.
On rocky highways or stretches Of
road hat cannot be improved by drag
ging the county boards are not re-
CURED to put the act into effect.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
GOOD
BUILDING ROADS IN FRANCE
National Thoroushfares, Maintained
Entirely by Government, Are Con-
structed AZ Feet Wide.

France admittedly has the best
roads system so far devised, and its
national roads constitute about 6h
per cent. Of the 365, 900 miles in the
whole country.
The national roads, maintained en-.
tlrely by the government, are con
structed ~ feet wide between bitches,
and lead from the capital to the prin.
clpal cities, ports and commercial
c%enters, and between the principal
cities. With the departmental or state
roads, and commercial roads Of differ.
ent classes, the national government
has nothing to do except to deter
mine their width, which is fixed by
general laws according to their classi
1ication.
The United States has two and a
nall times the population Of
France, and about six times the road
milage. To balance this difference. a
series OF national roads which would
connect our capitals and principal
cities would duly amount to about 2A
per cent. of the 100000 miles OF
roads in this country as compared
with the 6h per cent. in France, bring
ing the mileage of national roads pei
person In the United States about the
same as In France.
With our enormous sources await
ing development by the extension Of
our road systems, there seems no rea
son why we should not proceed with
the work of building national roads
writes Lewis X. Speare in the Illinois
Farmer. National roads building die
not ruin France; 1t made France
great.
The idea of building up a political
bureau does not deserve considera
ton. In all Of the important govern
mental work being carried on II
seems the policy Of all parties to see
that 1t Is conducted economically and
honestly, whatever party chances to
be In power. A fair instance Of that
Is the valuation Of the railroads Of the
country which Is just about to begin,
in which civil service examinations
will soon be held for the selection OF
several thousand civil and mechanical
engineers.
M. Fornand Bordas, a leading
French engineer, writing for the third
international road congress, now In
session in London, says: The national
roads, which connect the capital to
the frontiers and to the large towns
or else form a connecting link be-
tween the more densely populated
centers, are Of the greatest interest
to the country as a whole, not only
from an economic point Of view but
also from a strategic one, as assuring
communications between points at
long distances apart. 1t is therefore
essential that their general trend, gen.
eral plan, and width, should be settled
u%nfettered by local Influences"
This is the idea that the A. A. A.
National Good Roads board have
been and are endeavoring to impress
upon the lawmakers of this country.
1t seems as though plans which have
been so eminently successful in other
countries, and productive Of such ex-
celent results, are worthy of a trial
here.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
Ready to Put on the Road.

machine, writes Clyde w. Miller Of
Mahaska, Kan, in the Farmers Mail
and Breeze. Usually these frames
have a number of holes In them and
1t Is not much work to make the
pieces into blades for the drag. The
blades are bolted to 4 by As in the
manner shown in the drawing. When
made about seven feet long a team
Of horses will pull 1t handily, the
driver riding.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
Test With PIos.

In a feeding test with 80 pigs, last
ing 100 days. on a ration of corn chop.
buttermilk and barley, and sorghum
forage. conducted at the Oklahoma
station, the average daily gain was
81 pound as compared with q gain
OF 1.22 pounds on corn chop and but
termilk.
A lot of hogs turned into q field Of
corn yielding at q rate Of only II BUSH
els per acre made q gain of LIZ pounds
per head. Estimating the value Of the
grain at seven cents per pound. tho
hogs returned . value Of 63.15 cents
per bushel.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
Preparing Garden Soil.

In preparing garden soil for late
cabbage, celery and other late crops,
work 1t down very fine and compact.
Use the harrow, drag and roller for
this purpose. II the soil Is made very
nne and compact, 1t will hold moist,
ure to nourish the roots OF the newly
oot plants.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
ROAD DRAG IS ALWAYS SHARP
Drill, Binder or Other Machine
viii Answer Purpose.

The principle of the split-log road
drag is a good one, but through its
structural imperfections 1t fails to ap-
ply the principle effectively. 1t is
crude, heavy, and the cutting edges
soon wear dull. A good drag may be
made from the angie-steel frame Of a
wornout grain drill, binder or other
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
Must BE a for.

II we are to have good roads, we
must be willing to pay for them and
we must be willing to pay for their
maintenance. and also remember that
the maintenance is Of as great II not
greater Importance than the original
construction.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
New Paris

More durable and castle than ordi-
nary macadam 10 said to be q new
pavement laid In Paris with q bot
tom layer of concrete, an intermedi-
ate one Of concrete mortar reinforced
with iron rods and q surfacing Of
crushed stone and mortar.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06

a pressure of about $50 pounds to the
square inch, and at a temperature Of
from 100 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit,
being sprayed through fine nozzles.
Each spraying head comprises -four
nozzles. So applied, the tar will be
more quickly absorbed by the road,
penetrating to a considerable dis
lance.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
MAKING FARM WOMEN HAPPY

A. p. Sandell, secretary of agricul-
ture for Ohio, has reached the inter-
esting conclusion that the hope of
keeping boys on the farm might as
well be abandoned unless the girls
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
Cali to Save.

No calf should be saved as a future
member of the dairy herd unless she
has a good high producing mother
and q sire who transmit 'l.ese
traits in his female ancestry.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
MACHINE FOR WORK ON ROAD
Transporting Apparatus Gives Good
Satisfactory Results on Macadam-
lied Thoroughfares.

Particularly satisfactory results are
claimed for this system Of applying
tar to macadam roads. The tar is
heated and applied to the road under
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06

Receipt Books-Bound with stub
Brookings date line. Books of 25, so
and 100 receipts. Call at Register
office.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06

Benefits Of Good Roada
Good roads annihilate distance and
cancel space. They bring the farmer
. the market and place the city
man In closer touch with nature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-04-26
NEVER SAY DIE.

William Collier, Americas fore
most farceur. and witttest player, is
appearing at the Princess theatre,
Chicago, in his newest farcical play,
Never Say Die" in which he was
seen for nearly six months at the
Forty-eighth Street theatre in New
York City. With him is the entire
New York cast without the change OF
a single name.
For continuous and uninterrupted
laughter Never Say Die" has rarely
been eQualed on the American stage
. In recent years 1t IS admittedly the
best piece in which Mr.. Collier has
been seen since Caught in the Rain =
II is filled to overlooking with those
quaint flashes OF Wit and brilliantly
humorous bits Of repartee which have
come to be known as "ColIierisms"
Dying can hardly be considered a
humorous business and yet it furnish
es the basis for Mr.. Golfers new
play. The story concerns the adven-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-04-26
R2{Sehheatre

who is unable to see how such feats
are physical possibilities. For years
these boys have practiced their tricks
until today they stand practically
alone in the field, with many imita-
tors, but no equals They are the
climax Of agility, celebrity and rapidity,
and their work at times seems done
In actual defiance of the laws of
gravitation. Cliff Gordon, the world
famous German Senator" who died a
few days ago left Senator Francis
Murphy to keep up the high stand
ard of German dialect comedy on the
stage. Mr.. Gordons permission was
secured for the use of all of MI Muir
phys stories and quips. The political
speeches rendered by the senator"
are guaranteed to provoke more laugh
ter than anything else which has oc-
Cured here this year. Stewart and
Earl viii appear in a screaming COM
edy sketch, "Tommy's Mixup." Ores
mes and Prince have been secured in
their merry number, Eighteen Min
utes of Fooltshness," and Bill Dooley,
the versatile cowbay, will round out
the bill. Two more feature reels of
moving pictures will be shown and
those who liked The Deserter," a
two-reel feature last week, will be
even more pleased the first half of
next week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-04-26

dancing skit; Little Billy, known as
the pocket edition of comedy; Paul
Conchas, the only rival of Sandow,
Jere Grady and frankie Carpenter in
a pretty story, dealing with the in
fatuation of young man for an &C
tress; Carl and Lofty in acrobatic
song and dance; Miss Olive Brisce,
known as "the somewhat unusual
comedienne, and new subjects by
Thomas A. Edison's talking moving
pictures. Matinees are held daily at
the Palace.
One of the features of the Palace
music hall is the accommodations
provided for out of town shoppers, as
courteous attendants are always on
hand to take care of same, the thea
tire being situated at Clark and Ran
dolph, in the heart of the shopping
district.