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FARM DEVELOPMENT 



where a ditch is made either side, the machine is not 

 reversed, the teams going up one side and down the 

 other, making the roadway into a large backfurrow. Where 

 the roadway follows a hillside the reversible feature 

 enables the machine to throw the dirt in the same direc- 

 tion one way whether drawn away from or toward the 

 starting point. 



But the immense benefit to our roads by the use of 

 the reversible road machine, even before special surfac- 

 ing is applied, is indeed 

 very great. Mere wheel 

 tracks cut into the surface 

 of the native sod, and ruts 

 and miserable mire holes 

 in low areas are becoming 

 things of the past, and 

 rounded roadbeds, from 

 which the water runs into 

 the roadside ditches, are a 

 very great improvement. 

 As the desires and demands 

 for better roads increase, 



Figure 200. Reversible road machine carry- ^ d aS the P r fitS f Ur 

 r dirt from deep roadside ditch toward the farms and Other industries 



accrue so that the expense 



can be borne, these roadbeds will serve the most im- 

 portant purpose of well-formed and properly drained 

 substructures upon which to place a surface of gravel 

 or harder material. The reversible road machine is the 

 forerunner of the gravel car, the stone crusher and the 

 paving brick kiln. Even the iron rails adapted to carry- 

 ing the rural electric car as well as the wheels of the 

 produce wagon are seeking roadbeds made by the re- 

 versible road machine. Rural mail delivery, the rural 

 industries and the social life of rural communities owe 

 much to this simple machine. 



