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one cent an acre per }ear for each of the following' ten years 

 with interest on same. 



A g"ood gravel road costing $1,000 per mile with assessment 

 >^prea(l two miles either side of the center of the road would he 

 the same amount, or, if spread three miles would l)e less than 

 three- fourths of a cent per acre. 



No farmer that we have ever seen has objected to the amount 

 to he assessed against his land imder the provisions of this law 

 when he knew exactly the amount which would be assessed to 

 him for benefits, as in nearly all cases this kind of a road would 

 save him in hauling his produce to the market several times its 

 cost each year, besides the added pleasure of driving over a good 

 road. 



KVF.RVONE INTERKSTKl) IN ROAD. 



One of the good features in this road law, is that everyone 

 is interested in its cost and construction. The state, because it 

 pays one-half ; the county, because it pays one-quarter ; the in- 

 dividual benefited and living near the road, because he contributes 

 his share of the last quarter of the cost of the road. 



With everyone interested, a\ ith money in hand to pay for all 

 work when it is completed, a good road should be built at the 

 right cost. 



wirsT ATAv r.E DO^M=: I'xnKR t.aw. 



iMuallv to sum up wliat may be done under this law, the State 

 of Minnesota is at the present time able to build $21,000,000 

 worth of good road, or more than $200,000 worth of good' road 

 in each and every county of the state, and if we put into opera- 

 tion this law to its fullest extent, we double the value of every 

 acre of land in the state, provide ourselves with all the main roads 

 necessary, .and make ^linnesota a leader in good roads. — Xorth 

 IVoods. 



RrnnF.R-j'fXH CJU/rnwrioN ix tuf. b.iilim.is. 



]t i^ mentioned in the Journal of ihc Royal Socirty of .Irts 

 for April, I'M 3. that an extensive cultivation in the ]^>ahamas of 

 the rubber vine Cryf^tostci:;ia c^roudiflora is in contemplati(~>n. Tt 

 is understoofl that approximately 5.000 rubber vines will be 

 planted to the acre. After six months' growth the rubber vine 

 is said to attain a length of 12 to 30 feet. The vinrs will be 

 cut in about twelve months, when there will be presumably about 

 2 lbs. of shrub to the ]ilant as a minimum, yielding about 2 per 

 cent, of rubber, or 200 lbs. to the acre. .Xccording to the .\meri- 

 can Consul at Nassau, a large number of shoots to be planted 

 in the I'ahamas have been ordered from IVfcxico. and special 

 machinery for extracting the rubber and fibrous l)y-i)roducts by 

 a secret process has been ordered from the United States. 



