No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 675 



The CnAIKMAN: Thai (luestioii was before the IUku<\ lasl iiii^ht 

 but it did uot gel os thoroughly discussed as it ought to have been. 



MK. HUNTEK: 1 dou't know just how tliat question is going to be 

 settled in that case. I think pretty nearly every question will have 

 to be settled on its own basis. When I was called on to examine 

 a piece of road, which was proposed 1o be built, 1 was informed that 

 in the course of time a trolley line would be extended over that road. 

 I practically became balky. I said, gentlemen, if that is a fact I 

 don't like to give a recommendation to get State aid to build this 

 road and have it torn u\) unless we have it arranged that the trol- 

 ley company will put this road in as good condition as it was before 

 they touched it and give a bond for its faithful compliance before 

 they put a spade in it. That matter was taken up and to-day the 

 peoi)le. interested have secured one of the best sorts of agreements 

 with those people and I have a copy of it with regard to the building 

 of that road. It was the same way in another county. ' The ques- 

 tion of grading a hill came up in the building of a road, where it had 

 about ten per cent, grade, that would be about 3| to 4 per cent, at 

 the outside, and they said, you can't do that, the trolley people will 

 not agree to that. The trolley road w^as there and I took the trouble 

 to go and meet the superintendent of that road and after talking 

 it over an agreement was made by \A'hich they agreed to put down 

 their tracks at the same time the road was built. I think pretty 

 near every case can be worked out in that way. It is a hard rule 

 to fix and you have to carry it out to suit every case as you find it. 



MR. HERR: In our township we imagine that limestone is the 

 very best material to use on our roads. 



MR. HUNTER: There is a gentleman here who said that he knew 

 about the county that had such a small amount of roads and that 

 they were too poor to do anything. If that county will take the 

 total amount of money set aside they can build one mile of road at a 

 time. 



The SECRETAKY: in the preparation of the program it was 

 thought best not to make it too heavy, and there was no place men- 

 tioned for queries. We have got along so nicely that we have con- 

 cluded the exercises for the forenoon. Mr. Schwa rz has presented a 

 question here, and I think we will have a little time at the opening 

 of the afternoon session, and if you will take a slip of i)aper and 

 write out any question 30U may wish to ask, I have no doubt it will 

 be answered. I ask the Board to appoint some one to act as chair 

 man to take in charge those questions. You will observe that no ar- 

 rangement has been made for an evening session and that is owing 

 to the fact that we were unable to get the room for an evening ses- 

 sion, and. in fact, had some diCticulty in g<'tting it for the afternoon. 



