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Preserve The Roads

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
March
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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E. D. Rightmire of Burlington county, N. J. , says: "Farmers in thiscounty will travel miles out of their -way to get on a stone road and save time and expense by so doing. Therefore, as to the intrinsio value of stone roads, they themselves are tbeir own vindicator. I do not think it necessary to stone all roads in the county, but the most prominent ones should be as soon as the appropriatiou could be made without incumbering the county with bonds. "When a stone road is completed, the general impressiou is that it will last forever without any attention, which is a serious mistake. Tliey need as much attention as a good gravel road - i. e. , in the extreme heat of summer the most essential thing to be done is to water with watering carts and follow by rolling. With wide tires and wide wkiffletrees on heavy wagons used it would not be required to roll often, as the whecls with wide tires would act as a roller instead of rutting, as do the narrow ones. The greatest wear upon stone roads is caused, first, by the calks on the shoes of the horses; second, by the wheels of the heavy wagons. But by wide tires there would be comparatively little wear by the wagon. Thus most of it is caused by the horses, which can be overeĆ³me to a very great extent by the horse traveling in the wheel track."

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Ann Arbor Democrat