No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 671 



Ihis one and LbaL one, and they have to keep up miles of roads U 

 get to the schools. In my own county of Clearfield, we had an in- 

 stitute last week in a very intellij,^ent section, where we have very 

 good roads, and they attached to the resolutions that were offered 

 in the institute, a resolution making a wholesale attack on the road 

 law. For lack of time and a chance to get all the points in regard to 

 it I succeeded in having that resolution tabled until they would 

 have time to make a better showing. 



MR. FENSTEMAKER: It just happens that 1 have been placed 

 on the Committee of Road and Road Laws through my friend, Mr. Mc- 

 Gowan. I wish to ask Mr. Hunter if he intends to make any recom- 

 mendation to add an amendment to the bill compelling people to 

 use wagons with broad tires that haul heavy loads. We have an 

 experience right at my home, on the turnpike that passes by and is 

 driven over by Berks county farmers, going to ma'rket with hogs 

 and other products, and there is one continuous rut from Coopers- 

 town and Allentown and they use narrow tread wagons. I would 

 like to have another amendment made to the present law and that 

 is, that the trolley roads do not gobble up our macadamized roads. 

 We are afraid to send out our best horses on those roads on ac- 

 count of the trolley roads; and on account of them it is a great incon- 

 venience that we are unable to send our wives and children out with 

 horses that we are afraid to use. 



MR. HERR: 1 would like to suggest to the Secretary of the Dc 

 partment of Agriculture that this valuable address be published in 

 bulletin form and sent out to educate us more fully on this valuable 

 topic. 



MR. SCHWARZ: I am asked as to material to be used on the roads, 

 [n Montgomery county, from Bridgeport to King of Prussia thej 

 had limestone finish and they determined to use trap rock. I heard 

 the argument of Col. Demming, but I don't think the people took 

 that into consideration. The limestone was there. 



MR. HUNTER: There has been no action whatever taken on the 

 application in Upper Merion township, on the road running from 

 Bridgeport towards King of Prussia. While I believe that in 

 the construction of roads, as well as in other things, that anything 

 that is worth doing at all is worth being done well; but I am not 

 going to be a stickler for trap rock. I know that trap rock is a very 

 scarce article. I do know we can get limestone all through the 

 carboniferous regions. All through the State you will find very 

 good stuif to finish on top. You will have to have a stone that will 

 bind and stand the weather. Sandstones are thoroughly good for 



