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roads from getting out of repah\ *^A stitch in time 

 saves nine,'* and so it is with a shovelful of gravel. 

 A man and a horse and cart kept busy at the gravel 

 pit all through the year are worth many times more 

 in securing good roads than all the ^* working ouV* 

 of taxes. 



The State's Part. Many people are now coming 

 to see that the state ought to keep up at least the 

 main roads as well as build them. This will insure 

 the employment of road engineers, and it will be 

 done in a more permanent manner. 



Drainage. It is useless to build a road without 

 first providing a dry roadbed. Standing water and 

 the grinding of wagon wheels will soon reduce any 



Fig. 104. Grading and draining are essential to good roads. 



