Farmers And Roads

single item in connection with the farmer's business that attracts more of his uttention - that moro excites his ire, or gives him greater satisfaction than good or bad roada, and yet thero is no subject in which ho is more porsisteutly perverse and careless. Who ever heard of two farmers agreeing upon the proper time to repair roads, or tho best moans of doing it 'i Road-mending with us is, in most instances, inorely a spasmodio outbroak of misdirected labor applied without a definite object, and regardless of all recognized laws of inechanics or nature. Tho total earnmgs of the trafficdepartïnent of the Union Pacific Eailroad for 1873 is stated at $10,266,103 66 expenses, $5,062,212 46; net earnings, $5,222,861.30; net increaso of earnings over 1872, $1,130,HÜ9 22,