Worth Reading

The following, from the Manchester Enterprise is seasonable, and ought to be heeded : Tlie unprecedented bad roads everywhere this winter and spring ought to touch people a lesson in road -making. It is an undisputable fact that country roads are not half made. Not half the time assessedto farmers and others for work on the highways is properly spent and in many cases the work is badly done, through the poor management of the path master, who is unacquainted with the work placed in his hands to do. Many of the districts have gone to the expense of buying road machines and the people have an idea that with one of these the best of roads ought to be made. But they forget that the machine is only intended to scrape the roads, scoop out the ditches at either side, etc, thus preparing it for the reception of the material which really forms the lasting or wearing part of the mud. Chiy can be mixed with sand to harden it, but nothing short of four or five inches of coarae gravel will fit the road for continuous travel through wet and dry seasons. There is plenty of gravel to be fouud in this section of the state, it' not in one ruad district it can be found in another, and the farms ers must get it and use it liberally it they desire to have good roads.