Communication

-Mr Kditjr: For ihe last mon h I hnve lo. ked f' r wiin] io the meetinir f the Washtenaw Couniy Pox 1oíc1 Sxrety for March, wilh the hope ;ht some sensible plin tni-ht ne devised wherehy onr ronda mis'iithe rnade b -tter. without tooreat xpense. I adinit no beiag "edioateii." that I fa!t; 1 to -oh the loooection between pomology and rodol'gy, bu'. 'O'tt-nttd myself with the assuring ihought ihat the said aicitty wks largely mi-de up if men of mature amula aud no doubt of large txperi-nc -, id that me .-hcud sirely get somethin worih alildyiug aud perhap pía1:! cing. N w we had been treitíd e 11 winier, bv ev-ry ha' penny neWípaper editor, in th co'intry, with a Irne leetiiru on the impa.-.-i ile cotidkion if the rond-, as if liie bickwooils f.riier wonlj not find u out Hule he mb-cribed for ih p per. So you 'ray imagine my surp i-;, when I turueci t th ieiort ufuaid íiieetins, ihil I wbs oblisied 10 t ke only an enlarged close Ironi one ot ihe pame frMt-rnity wlio had probably never liad any exptneuce in road building, and wno wt uld advise the creatina ot many offices, ío be filled hy raen, perhaps, many of whotn would fall far (.hort of our country pithmasterg in judgment, in working roadi and in ability to manage men sticcessfully. Aud if toada are to be worked by outs deri nd maie peifct roada, ihe expense would be euormcuí. But the professor ñus struck the key-note. He says : "Ktep dry." Now that's ju-t what e would 1 ke to have a ittle iight on, how to keep roads dry, when it raina more than thirty days in every mínth, Fdbruary included. No doubt, but what the professor, if bis health had permitted, oould have given us practical iuformation, for science ii doing wonderful things for U3. Now I, beinu; a sort of carp=nter, can see no way f keepiog things dry but by tiousing, and when we advise farmers to keep farm implements dry, we advise them to build a covering for them. So probably the pro'essoi, it his heaUh had held ou', wuild have given us plans and speeificauons for a building to cover all ronda. Of course the professor would be reeded to teil us where the road bed t-hould be gr&ded up four, six or ten feef, and the bilis cut down the same. It wouldn't cost much you know. Farmers cmld staiíd it. Wheat is worth Vi cent, I guess if ils very nice, and a tew millona expended on roads in each township would mbkoit just so lovely for city people to drive out to see their country cousiDS (and laugh at their greenuess ) As for farmers getting to town, some of ug get there oftener than we get money to ppenj, and I don't believe there is a family íj the whole CDuntry that ia being deprived of the necessitie?, or even the luxeries of life, on account of the condition of the roads. As for the road machine that the proft ssor ppeaks so lightly of, intimating that we hadbetterpay him $300 or $500 to come along acd set his little stakes showing U8 where water stands, than pay it for a machine. Now, Mr. Editor, two years ago our town bought a road machine, and men of prac'ical judgment used it and carne to town meeting one year ago and advised buyiog two more. I then doubted the w6dom of the purohase, but they were boueht and I used one in our district. We had drawn hundreds c f loads of gravel onto our beat, been at it fcr about a quarter of century, but, in many places it was worn out and the road bed a little hollow so places would hold water, and I found tnis machine a good thing to round them up speedily, making a splendid road all nimmer, and had the winter been what we usually get Uie roads would have been all righi now. I can't see why the remarks of Mr. Scott were suppressed. If he has been able to make good roads in the Maumee swamp as it was called, when I traveled them forly years ago, I am sure he could have given us some pointers. Refpectfully Yours,