Rural Mail Delivery

Experimente are being made as to the practieability and benefit of f ree delivery of mail in the rural districts. The following telegram from Milwaukee tells of its working.s in Wisconsin where it isbeing tried. "From reports received from Sun Prairie the village in Dane eounty whioh was selected totest the efficiency and lienelits of the rural mail delivery, the service has come to stay. Farmers ! are changing their postoilice address in i order to enabla them to take advantage of the f ree delivery At pr-sent the service employs four mounied carriers, who each make one trip a day. They average twenty miles a day, starting from the office at 11 o'clock in the morning. after the mails have been received trom the east, The routes extend ais miles nortti of the village and about nine miles southeast, the carriers eollecting the mailaswell as delivering. This service was started last November and is now ift good working order During Ihe month of December two carriers handled over 2,000 pieces, while of the other two one handled over I.'.khj pieces and the other over 1,200. The amount of mail handled from the Sun Prairie ollice has increased considerably since the rural delivery went into effect. The service hns led to more daily and weekly papers being taken, as the 'farmers cari receive them daily instead of waiting until they go into town, as used to be the case unler the old conditions. The government pays the carriers $25 a month, the carrier furnishing his own horse and equipment. with the exception of the mail pouch."