16 Agriculture and Its Needs 



we have the hills and lowlands, the woods 

 and streams, the diversity of soil, and the 

 stimulation of climate, which may easily 

 make rural life the finest and the noblest 

 in all the world. If we can adjust the best 

 kind of education to it all, the great leader 

 of the states will have no difficulty in in- 

 definitely maintaining her supremacy. 



We have eighteen hundred miles of state 

 roads. Put end to end they would reach 

 from New York to Buffalo four times over. 

 Over eight hundred miles were finished dur- 

 ing the past year. There are five hundred 

 more miles of road under contract, and still 

 another thousand miles awaiting contract. 

 We have expended less than a quarter of 

 the $150,000,000 we have agreed to expend. 

 With the good roads, and the telephones, 

 and the trolleys, and the daily free deliv- 

 eries of mails in all sections, the rural diffi- 

 culties ought to measurably disappear. 



