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Notes will be taken from time to time ou the couditiou of the 
different parts of the road that comparative results may be 
reported later. Meantime, as a result of this experiment and of 
careful observation of New Hampshire country roads through 
a series of years, the following remarks ai-e appended : 
1st, Cost. In considering results, especially cost per square 
yard, it must be borne in mind that all of the road under dis- 
cussion required much more than average repairs in the way of 
grade and drainage, as well as surfacing. On the other hand, 
with a less substantial foundation, the amount of broken stone 
advisable on the 125 foot stretch would have been incre'ased by 
some twenty tons, thus increasing the surfacing cost of that 
portion by about twenty cents per square yard. 
2nd, Permanent Work Necessary. The cost of this experi- 
ment is not presented as a model to be worked toward and not 
excelled, but rather as the work of an amateur who is laboring 
under the same disadvantages as would be found in the average 
farming town. It is evident that a policy of more or less per- 
manent work every year would in an average period of ten 
years revolutionize the character of the roads of a town. All 
could be given a proper rounded form ; the main ones reduced 
to standard grade, drained and fairl}' surfaced. 
Experiments with macadamizing should by that time have 
made good headway and, with the need of ordinary repairs 
reduced one half by the proper construction outlined above, 
the towns would be in condition to rapidly push forward the 
