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layer of coarse broken rock, | layer of flat stones is laid 

 in a regular course. On this the road is built up like 

 tin- macadam. Rg, 85 shows a section of a macadam 

 . and Fig. 86 i section of telford. 



A well constructed macadam or telford road will last 

 for many years, and costs little or nothing to keep in 

 good repair. Stone roads should have dirt tracks on one 

 or both sides. A dirt track is pleasant to use in dry 

 weather, and saves wear on the stone track. Fig. 24 

 shows such a mad. 



232. Value of Good Roads to a Community. — Good 

 roads provide better schools and better education, bet- 

 ter churches and better morals better health and 

 greater happiness, more money and better business. 



(1) The value of country Bchoolfl depend* largely on 

 the condition of the road-. When the roads become 

 very bad. many children are prevented from attending 

 school regularly, and both the school and children 

 sutTer. It is not unusual for country schools t<> be 



1 for weeks at a time on account of the condition 

 of the roads. Many country people who irith to provide 



their Children a good education are forced to move into 

 some town to secure it It is useless to expect first 

 country schools without good country roads. 



(2) Churches in the country ana as much dependent 

 on good roads as country schools are. When the roads 

 are \ery haul, many people stay away from church, the 

 church -utTers, and the people gradually become indif- 

 ferent about attending at all. They become lax, and the 

 morals of the community sutTer. A country without 



