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MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



SO that it always will be ready for the next rain. If I do not say anything 

 else here today that is remembered — and if the people in this Association 

 do not get any other thought that they can carry home with them, I want 

 them to get that idea — the way to make a good dirt road is to keep it so 

 that the next rain will not go into it. This means dragging only about 

 once a month on an average. I have kept track of it in order that I might 

 be able to speak with authority as to the amount of time and I find that 

 the average is twelve times a year, that is only once a month ; not much to 



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Diagram of King's Drag. 



A, split log, 8 to 10 feet long, 10 to lli 

 inches tliick, set on edge, botli flat sides 

 to the front. 



B, strong oak, hedge or hickory i)ars, 

 the ends of which are wedged in two-inch 

 .uiger holes bored through the logs or 

 slabs. 



Dotted line, chain or strong wire. 

 D, Dl, D2, rings to connect double-tree 

 clevis. Hitch at Dl and stand at C, on a 



plank laid on the cross-bars, for ordinary 

 work ; or hitch at Dl! and stand at E for 

 ditch cleaning or to make the drag throw 

 more dirt to the left. To move dirt to 

 the right reverse position of driver and 

 last hitch. If working a clay road, put 

 iron, old cart tire or something of the 

 sort, on lower edge of drag at the end of 

 six months ; for softer soil at the end of 

 twelve months. 



secure a good road. I drag from my own front gate to my neighbor's 

 front gate, a half mile. It takes about twenty minutes. I don't make 

 very many trips to town before I have regained the time I expended in 

 dragging, to say nothing of the gain to my neighbors and to the general 

 public. 



"This method is very simple, as I have said, but to one who is famil- 

 iar with the ordinary dirt road under all conditions of season and weather, 



