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lights at night, but I think that they should at 

 least have reflectors. Farmers must not be selfish 

 or obsolete. In a few years the state of our roads 

 will be entirely changed, owing to the spread 

 of motors, and they must realize that a vehicle 

 on a road at night without some warning light 

 is not only a danger, but a scandal. Only the 

 other day a local farmer was killed by a ladder 

 projecting from a waggon which he was unable 

 to see in time (one hardly ever can see them), 

 and, which, stabbing through his glass screen, 

 broke his neck. Too often when questions con- 

 cerning progressive legislation for the roads, 

 etc., come up in rural or parish councils, one 

 reads the report, " loud laughter." But we don't 

 want loud laughter, we want lights on vehicles, 

 and consideration for the safety of others. 



The road question will shortly come up, and if 

 our Union is active it must press for the only fair 

 solution — that the nation maintain the national 

 roads. Overtures should be made to the motor 

 associations, who are equally anxious, but the 

 farmer must reform before he can appear as cham- 

 pion of the roads. He must fit scrapers on the 

 wheels of his carts and wagons, and cease plaster- 

 ing mud an inch thick on the highways from his 

 fields on wet days, a deleterious practice; and he 

 must adopt in such matters a wider view. 



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