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vertisementon another page), to say to our 

 subscribers, that this harrow will be sent 

 to any responsible farmer in the United 

 States on trial, to be returned at the ex- 

 pense of the manufacturer if not entirely 

 satisfactory. Mr. Nash asks no money or 

 note in advance, and under these circum- 

 stances the farmer certainly runs no risk. 

 We do not hesitate to say that Mr. Nash 

 is a reliable and safe man to deal with. 



He delivers harrows free on board at the 

 following points: New York, Chicago, 

 Minneapolis, Columbus, Ohio; Louisville, 

 Ky.; San Francisco, Cal. ; and his custom- 

 ers only pay freight from those points. 



GOOD ROADS WILL SAVE YOU 

 *4, 5OO,OOO ANNUALLY. 



The average cost of moving a ton one 

 mile over our country roads is 25c, and 

 to move a ton ten miles it will cost $2.00, 

 or 20c per mile, and this does not include 

 the driver's time. The average distance 

 of our farms from their local market or 

 mill is ten miles. The average price of 

 wheat on the farm is lOc less than it is 

 at the local mill or market. This seems 

 to indicate beyond all doubt that the 

 average cost of transporting wheat from 

 the farm to the nearest market is lOc per 

 bushel and this is about 20% of the price 

 of wheat at the average local mill. 



Now it costs lOc a bushel to haul this 

 wheat because the roads are poor and if 

 the roads were good the average cost of 

 hauling would be cut in two and thtis 

 10% "would be saved to the farmer. This 

 saving would not only apply to wheat, 

 but everything the farmer sells or buys. 

 It is fair to say that the saving made by 

 good roads in a few years would be suffi- 

 cient to give every farmer an asphalt 

 pavement from his front door to the near- 

 est market. 



The total amount of farm products 

 sold in this country annually is about 

 $3,000,000,000 andj the amount of pur- 

 chases made by the farmer is about 

 $1,500,000, hence good roads Avill save 

 10 per cent on these amounts or $4,500,000 



annually to the American farmer. The 

 best road machines in the world are wide 

 tires. They take the jdace and render 

 almost unnecessary the road scraper, etc. 

 The narrow tires cut the best roads to 

 pieces in a short time and make the bad 

 roads worse. The wide tires improve and 

 preserve the good roads and make the bad 

 roads into first-class highways. 



Here is an account of experiments at 

 the Missouri Agricultural College Experi- 

 mental Station, at Columbia, which prac- 

 tically demonstrates this. 



Elaborate tests of the draft of wide and 

 narrow tired wagons have just been com- 

 pleted by the Missouri Agricultural Col- 

 lege Experiment Station, Columbia, ex- 

 tending over a period of a year and a half. 

 These tests have been made on macadam, 

 gravel and dirt roads in all conditions, 

 and also on the meadows and plowed 

 fields of the experimental farm. Contrary 

 to public expectation, in nearly all cases 

 draft was materially lighter when tires six 

 inches wide were used, than with tires of 

 standard width. The load hauled was in 

 all cases the same, and the draft was most 

 carefully determined by means of self-re- 

 cording dynamometer. The beneficial 

 effect of the wide tire on dirt roads is 

 strikingly shown in some recent tests at 

 the station. A clay road, badly cut into 

 ruts by the narrow tires, was selected for 

 the test, as presenting conditions least 

 favorable to the broad tire. A number of 

 tests of the draft of the narrow tire were 

 made in these open ruts, and immediately 

 followed by the broad tires running in the 

 same ruts. The first run of the broad 

 tires over the narrow ruts was accompanied 

 by an increased draft; the second by a 

 draft materially less than the original 

 narrow tire, third by a still greater de- 

 cline, and in the fourth trip the rut was 

 practically obliterated and filled. In an- 

 other trial, when a clay road was so badly 

 cut into ruts as to be almost impassable 

 for light vehicles and pleasure carriages, 

 after running the six inch tires over this 

 road twelve times the ruts were completely 



