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the material to the low ground. When the road was shaped and rolled 

 the appearance and conditions were entirely changed. A concrete cul- 

 vert 30 inches in diameter and 24 feet long with head walls was also 

 built. The interest was good and although the work was 1/^ mile out of 

 town the total attendance was 250. 



The longest stop of the trip was made at Marshfield, where we met 

 with our first bad weather, although it caused little delay. A shower 

 early Friday morning prevented work until 10 a. m. and left the surface 

 in a slippery condition for the remainder of the day. The wet condition 

 made heavier work and caused the engine and grader to slip and slide 

 so the machinery could not be placed where desired. 



Here we had one mile of road set out for us beginning one mile out 

 of town. The first one-fourth mile was the hardest section to work that 



Interest shown at Ash Grove in the demonstration road worlv. 



we found on the trip. It did not look bad, but tlie one stony point to 

 be graded down together with the rest of the one-fourth mile was a cherty 

 soil, tight and hard, filled with "nigger heads" and flint boulders. It 

 was hard to plow and difficult to move when loosened up. The second 

 one-fourth mile was a nice even stretch of earth. 



The third one-fourth mile was a very rougli piece of old road which 

 had been wet and was still full of boggy places, the whole being poorly 

 drained. In times past the holes had been filled with boulders in an 

 irregular way, which resulted in more bog holes and a very crooked 

 alignment. Our plows unearthed about 200 feet of old corduroy road. 

 The rain standing in the low places, together with the bog holes, chunks 

 of rock and corduroy, made it a difficult piece of road to shape up. 



