Good Roads

A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker, writing from Ssveden, Monroe Co., N. Y., says : Good roads are a convenience, a comfort and a profit to the public, and indícate the enlightentnent and enterprise of a coramuaity. In fome favored localities good country roads may be conetruoted at little expense ; in others the undertsking entails much labor and outlay. In a general way, where the soil is eo productivo as to afford the farmer the largest amount of producís to be carried to market, the roads are naturally the poorest and the facilitieg for making them the scantiest. Nobody in a grain-producingsection isso directly interested in good roads in the way of expense and profit as the farmer ; for good highways lessen the cost of marketing at least one-half. Some years ago thia town resolved to improve its roads, which had for a long time been in a bad condition. We first purchaseti two improve 1 road scrapers at a cost of $150 each. These were used under the direction of the commis-sioner in turnpiking, grading and emoothing the road-beds throughout the town. We then voteJ a tax of $l,'00 for the purchase of a stonecrusher. It has been in successful use during the past three years. It is operated by a thresher's 10-horse engine, and crushes stones of any kind to about the size of hen's eggs and less, aa fast as two men can throw tbem in. Money for drawiDg and crushing the stones is raised by tax, and the road district draws th m ai.d builds the road. The store is u=ed ia nearly the sam way as gravel, in a layer from 8ix to twelve inches thLk. On loose ground or where the road-bed is not firm, a foundation of cobbleetones is leid one foot deep, more or leas, a? required. The main thoroughfare through the center of thn town leading to the village of Brockport, our market placp, is now completed and many of the croas-roads where most needed are panly so. Oa these roadí during tbia open and muddy feason ms raa draw a load or carriages can run as easily as in the dry season of the year. Our commissioner has built severil miles of road the pist se.ison, our faimers being always willing to draw the material? on to the road whenever il is ready without regard to the road tax levied on thetn. With much heavy travel on the roads tht-y will wear out and need recoveriog; but the work will entail less ex pense and cn be done with the cocnmon road tax. We think the hard, blue limestone rock makes the most durable road