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than good ones? All products of the farm must be trans- 

 ported over roads, and it may cost more to haul these 

 products to market for several years, over poor roads, than 

 to build good roads and haul the products over them. 



Points to Consider. — Are the roads good between your 

 home and the schoolhouse? Between your home and town? 



Figure 117. — A specimen of a bad road. 



Are there steep hills, or places where the road is rough, 

 or muddy, or sandy? Have you thought that the size of 

 the load that can be hauled to town is determined by the 

 size of the load that can be hauled over the worst place or 

 places? This is true ; and many times one has to go to town 

 with only half a load, on account of some bad place in the 

 road. The cost of marketing farm products is thus in- 

 creased and consequently the price of farm produce tends 

 to increase; because, if the roads are bad, fewer products 

 can be brought to town and fewer farmers will try to get 

 products to market. Persons who live in town and have 

 to buy the farm products are interested in good roads, be- 

 cause they want to get their vegetables, flour, etc., as cheap 



