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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



steam roller perambulations? Yet it is believed some 

 thousands of miles of that kind of road have been made in 

 American cities and towns in their vicinity. The method 

 has been very popular, and Ave have scarcely begun to look 

 into it. In the country it is now being translated in real 

 life, on precisely the following plan : — 



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The above picture is taken by permission from the report 

 of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture for 1887. The 

 town where that hopeless work was done, without local 

 remark, is now afflicted by street railways. 



Engineers are giving us " Tel ford-Macadam," and popu- 

 lar ideas of macadamizing roads are equally mixed. None 

 of our great cyclopedias are clear on the subject of "roads." 

 Zell's (Philadelphia) has this to say : — 



Macadamizing. (Enr/in.) A method of road-making charac- 

 terized by breaking the stone so small that they may form, when 

 covered with a layer of earth, a smooth, solid mass, — so named 

 after the inventor, Jas. Mac Adam, a native of Scotland, 1756- 

 1836. 



How can a reading people know about road making while 

 our books cram one sentence with so many misstatements as 

 that sentence has ? 



A State secretary of education, having some roads to 

 make, addressed the writer in exactly these words : "Your 

 way of making roads, as I understand it, is to dig a trench, 

 fill it with stones, and cover them with dirt." Hence our 

 pains in this "appendix" are not altogether idle. 



