DR
KGIHC OF ROADS
How to Get Them In Good Shape
For Winter Hauling
DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING
Much Good Can Be Done by Grading
Up In Summer and Fall Fop Work
Later On How to Mako a Drag
From Split HickoryLog
On every farm where there is a mile
or more of road unless it has been
made permanent by grading properly
and macadamized or graveled there
ought to be u road drag With such a
tool at hand any farmer can with lit
tle time and trouble keep his farm
roads In perfect condition
Having a large farm and over two
miles of roadway I have found a
homemade drag to be a most useful
implement Of course we can get
along with poor roads on the farm
but if we are the sort of farmers who
take pride in having things In the best
shape we will certainly take pleasure
in keeping our farm roads in good con
dition And I may add that it takes
so little time and trouble to run over
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HOW DRAGGING IMPROVES A ROAD
From Good Roads Magazine New Jfork i
a mile or two of road when the team
Is already hitched to the drag that I
usually go through the outside gate
and work up and down the public road
in front of the farm when 1 drag the
farm roads
The longer I keep my drag and use
it on my roads the more I appreciate
it Mine is of the red split log type
I made it of a ten foot section of a
twelve inch hickory log split in the
middle and on the front cutting edge
nailed some heavy sheet iron It works
about as well as the metal ones some
of which 1 see occasionally
1 dont think it took me two hours
to make my drag though I did not
make it strictly according to the reg
ulation method as I have seen drags
illustrated in farm papers All of those
seemed to have the two sections of log
put together by having three large
augur holes bored through them and
round wooden bars about two inches
in diameter put through to hold them
parallel and rigid
J did not have the large augur to
bore boles big enough for stout wood
en bars so 1 merely sawed down into
the upper edges of each half of the
log at three places and split out the
blocks leaving a place into which 1
could put a piece of four inch scant
ling 1 cut three pieces of scantling
thirty -sis inches long and fitted them
into the cutout places and made them
fast by driving spikes six inches long
Into them The job seems to be as
solid as those made by boring holes
and putting the bars through Some
people make their drags of plank and
they do very well but cost more and
will not stand hard usage so well as
the regular split log drag
There is not of course so great need
of the drag in summer and fall as in
winter and spring but it is a much
easier and pleasanter job to make it
then and besides if one drags his
roads a few times in summer and
gets them well graded up they will re
main In good shape far better than if
left just as the summer hauling has
made them
Moreover on many farms there are
wet places in the roads that cannot
well be worked to advantage in winter
and spring It these are graded up
and drained in the fall they will no
doubt stay good all the time
There is another use I have seen the
drag put to that on some farms will
come in very handy Quite a good
many cattle owners And it expedient
to pen up their cattle at night in sum
mer As a rule no straw or other bed
ding is thrown over the lot and the
manure remains on the ground and
dries out and on sloping ground is of
ten all washed away 1 find that if I
run the road drag over the cowpen
occasionally 1 can scrape up several
loads of the best kind of manure that
Is well worth collecting and hauling
out to thin spots on the farm
I say with emphasis there is no small
job that a farm owner can more profit
ably devote a few hours to when he
has some leisure time after the press
of farm work is over than constructing
a road drag Missouri Cor Farm Prog
ress
Hard Dirt Roads
Kansas perhaps has the best natural
roads of any state In the Union There
Is practically a highway on every sec
tion line In three fourths of the state
the dirt roads ten months of the year
are as level and hard as a floor
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ROAD DRAGGING EXPERIENCES
Pennsylvania Supervisor Tells of Value
of Using the Drag
Supervisor Albert Groff of East
Bemptield township Lancaster coun
ty Pa writes about the drag as fol
lows
First of all road dragging smooths
the roads We have found that out
siuce we have been using the drag
The second thing is that road drag
ging makes the roadbed firmer and
enables it to shed water quicker than
a road which has been undragged and
neglected This is another of our ex
periences The third thing we have
shown has been that a little dragging
done at the right time is worth a lot
more than drugging done in the thick
dust This latter dusty condition of
the road is not the time to 4work on
the road with a drag but any other
time will do though the best time of
all is right after a rain When we
first began to drag the township roads
the neighbors many of them were
skeptical So were we But as things
went on the proof was demonstrated
aud now we are beginning to wonder
why we did not adopt it years ago
The principle of working up the
soft sticky mud of a clay or loam
character means that it will grow hard
when left to the rays of the sun and
it Is this idea of working up a soft
roadbed after every rain of smearing
over the entire road surface a thin
layer of soft pliable mud which will
become dry and hard that I now real
ize is giving us our solid roadbeds
where the drag is working Our super
visor board pays the farmers who drag
the roads by their farms 35 cents per
hour for their labor We are planning
to put more drags on our township
roads very soon We have forty four
miles of dirt roads in East Hempfield
township our assessed valuation is
3000000 and our road tax is 2 mills
BOWLDER FOUNDATION
One of New Englands Most Substan
tially Built Highways
If you were to try to find the most
substantially built road in New Eng
land it would not in all probability be
necessary to go farther than Acton
Center Mass to locate the one which
would take first premium for solidity
Just beyond the town was a con
siderable hill but there is not as much
of a climb there now as formerly for
it has been cut down very perceptibly
The old condition was far from
pleasing to Augustus Conant who
lives but a short distance from the
foot of the hill He informed the
town that If the hill could be cut down
and slightly relocated he would put
in the necessary foundation for a
first class road the town to put on
the finishing touches and his propo
sition was readily accepted by the
voters
For the new basis of the new high
way Mr Conant had carted to the spot
many loads of field stones and Innu
merable bowlders large and small
Some of them weighed several tons
and it is asserted that there is not in
all probability another road in the
United States which can boast of such
a foundation as the one which was
constructed to the liking of the towns
benefactor In some parts of the road
it has a solid stone foundation of sev
eral feet
TAFT ON NEED OF ROADS
The Movement Is General and of Great
Value Says the President
President Taft has indicated his in
terest in good roads the latest ex
pression being elicited in connection
with a movement for better highways
in Virginia this taking shape in an im
mediate plan for a road from the na
tional capital to Richmond In a letter
on the subject the President says
I regard this as part of the general
good roads movement in the country
and I have pleasure in saying that
there is no movement that I know of
that will have a more direct effect to
alleviate the difficulties and burdens
of the farmers life will stimulate the
traffic and add to the general happi
ness of the people more than the estab
lishment of good roads
1 do not think that because this
may have been stimulated by people
using automobiles it is to be frowned
upon for while persons using auto
mobiles are by no means the most im
portant in the community the fact
that their sharp interest has focused
the attention of the public on the move
ment entitles them to credit
I have no doubt that within the au
thority which is his the secretary of
agriculture will be glad to assist by
recommendation and practical advice
the methods to be pursued in good
road building in Virginia
Scheme to Improve Roads
Under a new arrangement to sys
tematically Improve the roads of Atchi
son county Kan each trustee will be
required to have his township of road
dragged after every hard rain It Is
estimated that a mile of road can be
dragged once at a cost of 50 cents and
that the cost of keeping each mile in
good condition during a year will be
5 The new law calls for a special
tax levy to create a road fund
Drag Brother Drag
If your road is soft or rough-
Drag brother drag
Once or twice will be enough
Drag brotner drag
Wheels wont slnlc into a rut
Every time you strike a cut
Teams wont worry It youll but
Drag Drother drag
Twont take long to fix your road
Drag brother drag
If youd pull a bigger load
Drag brother drag
It means dollars in the end
Saved on teams my rriend
So to this your best ear tend
Drag brother drag
Pawpaw Mich Bazoo
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NEW SHORT STORIES
Effect Was Lacking
That was a lame and impotent con
clusion said Senator Aldrlch of an
opponents tariff speech It failed of
effect like old Ellslin Greys adventure
story
At a package party one winter
night in the village the guests re
galed one another with weird and
frightening adventures that had be
fallen them in lonely churchyards
They told of meeting with highway
men in deserted lanes encounters Ii
lonely houses with desperate burglar-
etc
Vain old Elisha Grey after an hou
or so of this got jealous of the inter
est and awe that the adventure storied
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I LANDED HIM A GOOD UN ON THE JAW
of the men about him stirred up So
interrupting a burglar yarn quite rude
ly he piped in his high quaver
T aint never been molested but
wunst ladies an gents I was hur
ryin to hum from the ginral store at
the time It was late at night close
on 10 I guess an jest as I was pass
in the doctors it was dark an lone
some I tell ye why a soft spoken
young feller steps up an asts me fur
a match So I up with my fist an
landed him a good un on the jaw an
hiked out o that just as fast as my
legs ud carry me
Old Elisha looking around for a
display of shuddering admiration was
very much disgusted indeed to find the
end of his story greeted with a roar of
laughter
Would Split the Ticket
Homer Cummings the Connecticut
member of the Democratic national
committee who was in charge of the
eastern speakers bureau in the 190S
campaign is a rattling good story
teller and one day at the Hoffman
House with Senator Culberson Colo
nel Johnson of the Houston Post Rep
resentative John Wesley Gaines of
Tennessee and several other well
known Democrats as listeners he told
of a Celtic friend of his in Stamford
who came to him some years before
in a presidential campaign and said
Homer Im going to try voting the
Republican ticket this year
Well now thats a surprise Jerry
for I thought you were a rock ribbed
Democrat said Cummings
And I am said Jerry but I like
Jim Blaine for hes part Irish so I
want to do what I can for him Im
going to vote for Blaine all right but
whispering as he got close up to Mr
Cummings ear Im going to cut the
divvle out of Logan
Dax Nerve
The nerve of that said De Wolf
Hopper discussing an actors conduct
reminds me of Dax It is real Dax
nerve
Abroad he went on a man can
enter a luxurious cafe write a dozen
letters look over the expensive illus
trated weeklies play chess bridge or
checkers in short spend the entire
evening delightfully all for the price
of a glass of beer Many people do
this abroad The cafe proprietors
dont mind
Once in Bayonne though I saw a
cafe proprietor flush with anger It
was at the time of the Fete Dieu and
three Dax chaps stalked into his place
selected a fine table by a window
rapped for a waiter and when the man
came said
Fetch us a pitcher of ice water
and the dominos
Old Sol Cannot Wilt Uncle Joe
Speaker Cannon although past seventy-three
years old stood the tariff
grind with less wear and tear than
any member of the house over which
he presides While seven eighths of
the members of the house were away
at summer resorts and watering places
Uncle Joe remained in Washington
and dared the hot sun to do his worst
He lost none of his fondness for jokes
Why is it that the house always
has a blind chaplain he was asked
by a visitor who dropped in at the
speakers rooms one day near the end
of the session
Its a case of necessity he said
confidentially because if the chap
lain could see the fellows he has to
pray for hed throw up his job Cin
cinnati Commercial Tribune j
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READY TO FIGHT
HTVas Lucky the Humorous Little Man
Made Good His Escape
The big man with the fiery look on
his face had been struggling with the
car window for twenty minutes Sud
denly it came down on him aud held
him a prisoner With much fuming
and wriggling he finally released him
self
Confound that blasted window he
thundered almost exploding with rage
I feel like I could chew it up in bits
glass and all
It was then that the humorous little
man in the next seat touched him on
the arm
My friend he said with a merry
twinkle in his eyes dont be so angry
with the window Why that window
likes you In fact it Is really affection
ate
What Are you joshing me The
window affectionate
Certainly sir Didnt it fall on your
neck
And then the humorous little man
vanished toward the smoker Chicago
News
Gratitude
She came back from the ocean with
the sparkle in her eyes and the tan on
her cheeks
Well well said the pale little man
who had been laboring in the hot stuf
fy office You are looking fine Ill
wager you didnt worry about me one
second while you were down there
No dear she teased as she count
ed her souvenir shells that is just
the reason I went away
What reason
Why to keep from worrying about
trifles
And he poor married man had been
sending the weekly checks St Louis
Post Dispatch
As to That
Interrupting her husbands inutter
ings the fair young wife says
Before we were marrjed you would
have been delighted to button my dress
for me
Straightening up and mopping the
perspiration from his brow the brutal
husband retorts
Huh Before we were married you
would have called the police if I had
offered to do such a
York Life
thing New
One For Pa
Ostend Pa didnt you say gossip
was a poor thing at all times
Pa I did my son
Ostend Well I should think it would
be right the opposite
Pa And why
Ostend Well dont they say gossip
gains currency Los Angeles Times
She Took a Pair
How much are these shoes asked
the lady who had the reputation of be
ing a keen shopper
Those shoes are not for sale re
plied the salesman who had some
thing of a reputation too Were
giving them away with every pair of
shoe laces at 350 Judge
A Heartbreaking Job
Whats making Swubbs look so
wretchedly careworn the last few
weeks
Oh he won a dollar prize in a joke
contest three months since and hes
trying to incubate another side split
ter Lippiucotts Magazine
Only a Void
Bertie Heres anothah great chess
playah whose brain has gone wrong I
am glad I nevah took up the deuced
game
Jane But in your case Bertie Im
quite sure there would he nothing to
go wrong Smart Set
Our Public Schools
Schoolteacher Who can make a
sentence using the word indisposi
tion
Tough Pupil assuming a pugilistic
pose When youse wants to fight
youse stand in dis position Town
Topics
His Ambition
So voure saving up to buy an air
ship Youre quite an ambitious little
boy
Yesin I wants ter fly over Jimmie
Jones yard an drop bricks on to him
St Louis Post Dispatch
Getting a Hair Cut
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Sure to Do It
He is such a lazy man that he took
to manufacturing fans as the easiest
way of making a living
The easiest way
Sure Isnt it certain to raise the
wind Baltimore American
He Told Her Again
She Tell me once more that I am an
angel fallen from heaven
He All right but its a pity you fell
on your nose
He Spouts
He is a fountain of information
Fountain More like an artesian
well Philadelphia North American
CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Congregational Sunday school at
10 a m Prayer meeting Wednesday
evening at eight oclock The public
is cordially invited to these services
Episcopal Preaching services at St
Albans church at 11 a m and 730 p
m Sunday school at 10 a m All
are welcome to these services
E R Eable Rector
Catholic Order of services Mass
8 a m Mass and sermon 1000 a m
Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday
school 230 p m Every Sunday
Wm J Kibwin O M 1
Methodist Sunday school at 10 am
Sermons by pastor at 11 and 8 Class
at 12 Junior League at 3 Epworth
League at 645 Prayer meeting Wed
nesday night at 745
M B Cabman Pastor
Baptist Sunday school at 10 a m
Preaching service at 1100 a m Even
ing service at 800 B Y P U at 7 p m
A most cordial invitation is extended to
all to worship with us
E Burton Paator
Evangelical Lutheban Regular
German preaching services in frame
building of East Ward every Sunday
morning at 1000 All Germans cordial
ly invited Rev Wm Bbueggeman
607 5th at East
Chbistian Science 219 Main Ave
nue Services Sunday at 11 a mf and
Wednesday at 8 p m Reading Room
open all the time Science literature
on sale Subject for next Sunday
Matter
Evangelical Lutheran Congrega
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Preaching at 1030 a m and 730 p m
by pastor Junior C E at 130 p m
Senior C E at 400 p m Prayer
meetings every Wednesday and Satur
day evenings at 730 All Germane
cordially invited to these services
Rev GustavHenkelmann
505 3rd street West
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Can always be depended upon
During the summer months childrer
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soon as any unnatural looseness of thx
oowels is noticed Chamberlains Colic
Oholeraand Diarrhea Remedy should be
given Costs but 25 cents a bottle and
it is economy to always keep a bottle
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A FAMILY REGULATOR
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the use of children old folks and delicate
persons as well as for robust people We
cannot too highly recommend them to all
sufferers of constipation We offer
vour monev back if you- are not satisfied
Theyare eaten likecandyvanddonot gripe
purge or cause any annoyance tchxieyee
Two sizes ioc and 25c
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DR E R TARRY 224 Bee Building Omaha Nebraska
320 Acre Free Homestead
WYOMING COLORADO AND MONTANA The Mondell Homestead
law makes provision for 320 acre homesteads in certain localities instead of the
usual 1G0 acre tracts The requirements of the law are practically the same re
garding residence improvements and cultivation These lands are going fast
if you want a homestead close to the railroad you should act now
CROPS AND RAIN FALL Visitors to the Omaha Corn Show will remem
ber the magnificent- display of farm products from Weston county Wyoming
grown on exactly the same kind of land that can now be taken in 320 acre home
steads The Mondell Act includes lands that receive from 16 to 21 inches of rain
fall annualiy and you only need to see the crops grown by the farmers already
located there to be convinced These homesteads can be taken along the Burl
ingtons new line now building in Wyoming
I personally conduct excursions the first and third Tuesdays of each month
to these lands and am employed by the Burlington to answer all inquiries and to
assist you in every possiole way to locate along the Burlington Lines Write for
new folder and map of these lands
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D CLEM DEAVER General Agest
Land Seekers Information Bureau Omaha Nebraska
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