No. 4.] COUNTRY ROADS— APPENDIX. 



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M'Adani hated the absurd and conical wheel manufactured 

 by the greedy transportation companies of his time, but 

 approved the flat tread of the other. It is always well to 

 range from landmarks in the past to see how we are getting 

 on. 



Here we bring in some small, special road tools : a new 

 digging-hoe with knob or " D " handle, that, if well made, — 

 so universal is its application, — would sell at sight in China, 

 or any part of the world. With it strong and expert men 

 can fill fifty to one hundred cart-loads of rooty earth in a 

 day. 





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' ' Why don't farmers clean up their roadsides ? " is often 

 asked. What tools have they — rfor instance — for trimming 

 to a feather-edge, the abrupt banks gouged by " the bullet- 

 headed road-mender " in front of their bar- ways and doors ? 

 Will the spade, or the round-point, or broad mouthed shovel 

 do it? Try them, and see. 



Are our agricultural schools and experiment stations com- 

 bining to study out and patronize better hand tools, to the 

 end that the country may be better equipped ? Not much. 

 They are willing to "test" the tools in the market when- 

 ever they are presented to them ; but, as for original inves- 



