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we see the prairie farmer loaded with sink-in-tke-mud stone, 

 while pure-grit tilling is reserved for some fellow who will 

 pay more money. That is railway ballast left loose for 

 knocking out ties at all seasons. Massachusetts is stuffed 

 with the same false doctrine. Cheating and competing quar- 

 ries and public workmen saw, when contracts and piecework 

 for roads were suggested, that clay would swallow more 

 broken stones if they were furnished in assorted sizes, and 

 also that the stone would measure more. When will the 

 general public see ? Then we shall begin to have better 

 stone-roads. 



The gist of this whole matter can be written in a single 

 sentence, as follows : How can a stone baft float on a 



SEA OF MUD IF WE BUILD IT LEAKY? 



In very common and much mistaken schools it may be 

 necessary to set up a broken stone lantern to throw light 

 upon our subject, in this way : — 



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