ROADS AND PATHS 



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The importance of systematic maintenance seems to 

 be understood tolerably well in the case of la\\Tis, but 

 with roads it appears to be different. To carry out the 

 w^ork of maintaining roads properly, a laborer should be 

 given charge of an allotted length of road, on the block 

 system, for the proper repair and cleanliness of which he 

 should be held responsible. His duty should consist in 

 keeping the road always scraped clean, and free from 

 mud, and in filling in ruts or hollows, the moment they 

 appear, ^^^th broken stone or gravel brought from a stor- 

 age place near by. 



On all repairs of roads, as much of the old, but not 



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TREATMENT OF ENTRANCE GATE AND LODGE 



waste, material should be used as possible, the object 

 being to unite in bond the old material with the new, so 

 that the patch ^vi\\ be as little unlike the unrepaired por- 

 tion as possible. Experience ^^ill soon enable the laborer 

 to judge when the old material is too much worn to use 

 again. In making these repairs a roller is very useful, 

 although excellent work can be done on broken-stone 

 roads with a rammer weighing twelve to twenty pounds. 

 The wheel tracks should be promptly obliterated and 

 filled in, and the new stone, that has just been applied 

 wherever it is needed, should be covered with fine 

 material and rammed and rolled in with the help of a 



