How To Make Clay Roads

Professor Hamilton, in his bulletin on goed roads, says: The iniplements for constructing a clay road are a road machi üe, roller and harrow. To make the road prepare the bed with the road machine, giving it only a moderate slope, so that the convexity wil!, when solid, be about 1) to 2 inches to the yarrt. Then roll it until it isthoroughly coiupacted. When ruts begin to form, rnn over it with a smoothing harrow, 12 !or 13 feet wide, made in sections. Then roll thoroughly -and repeat this operation whenever ruts begin to form. Kep side drains open and make freqilent discharge ditches to carry water o$f the right of way. At tention to these directions will keep a clay road in good (iondition for certainly ten months in the year.