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given, day by day, to the minute repairs of small patches 

 that are intended to fill up all depressions and ruts as 

 soon as they present themselves. In this way, the road 

 can be kept undiminished in thickness for an indefinite 

 period. The repairs should be so managed as to expose 

 the road, whether gravel or broken stone, slightly to 

 view, without laying it bare or removing the binding ma- 

 terial from around the stones at the surface. This may 

 be done by men suitably provided with hoes, stiff brooms 

 set at right angles to the handles, shovels, and wheel- 



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barrows. Machine scrapers and brooms of various kinds 

 drawn by horses have to be used with great care, to 

 prevent injury to the roads by loosening the top stones. 

 A certain amount of detritus, or binding material, should 

 be left on the road, and frequent rolling in the spring of 

 the year will help to make solid the surface that has 

 worn loose during the wear and tear of the frost and 

 travel of winter. To maintain a road properly on even 

 the smallest place, the rolling should be carried on sys- 

 tematically at regular periods all through the year, but 

 more especially in spring, .-just after the frost has dis- 

 appeared from the ground. 



