Opinions Of Two Specialists

Professor Ely, of Johus Hopkins university, reckons that "poor roads coat the farmer on an average $15 per horse." Professor Jenks, of Knoi college, Illinois, argües that "with good permanent roads freight conld often be hauled ten miles on wagons cheaper than it could be taken one niüe.onadirtroad to a niilroad station, unloadkd, jut on the cars and carried to its destination." These are the opinions of specialists who have no doubt gone over a great man y columns of statisticsin making up their estimates. There is no practical teamster who will not admit the reasonableness of their conclusions. The greatest obstacle perhaps to the improvement desired arises f rom the circumstance that there are as yet no really good roads in this country, and frqm the other fact that the scfencw of building roads has never been st'uáied' ty bur people. - Youth's Companion.