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to the larger centralized schools, which have so 

 many advantages over the one-room rural school. 

 More expert teachers may be had, a trained super- 

 intendent can be employed, the children are better 

 graded and the larger classes create more enthusi- 

 asm in study and recitation. A teacher trained in 

 the science of agriculture can be secured to take 

 charge of that subject and of the school garden. 

 Centralized schools, besides being better equipped 

 in every way, may be managed more economically 

 in one building which requires only one heating sys- 

 tem and one janitor. And all this is possible onl^^ 

 when the roads are kept in good condition. 



City People Interested. City people also demand 

 good country roads because the better the roads, the 

 more easily they obtain country produce and the 

 cheaper it is. City people are using the country 

 roads more every year for pleasure-driving and for 

 automobiles. It is said that automobiles, because 

 of the high rate of speed at which they go, do more 

 in ^^rf^^r out the roads than all the heavy teaming 

 of the farmers. It is unjust to expect the farmers 

 to build and keep the roads in repair. Moreover, 

 the cost of the produce that the farmer takes to 

 market concerns the people in the city that consume 

 it, as much as the man who has it to sell. 



Marketing Farm Produce. More than two hun- 

 dred fifty million tons of freight are hauled from 

 farms to the market or railway stations each year. 

 Counting the labor of men and horses, the wear of 



