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products of the farms and mills back and forth is greater 

 on bad roads than on good roads, we might designate 

 this difference as the "bad-roads tax." If the bad-roads 

 tax on a community is enough to build and maintain 

 good roads, the wisdom of the building is at once appar- 

 ent. Statistics compiled by students of the problem 

 of public highways say that the heaviest road tax is 

 paid by the farmer who is compelled to haul his prod- 

 ucts over a neglected road. 



Fig. 179. If fifty tons of freight are hauled over such a road daily, what is the 

 cost to the community for a year? 



402a. Problem. Farmer Jones has a farm of 160 acres, six miles 

 from the railroad. He raises corn, cotton and oats as money crops. 

 He has 40 acres in corn, averaging 40 bushels per acre 1,600 

 bushels 115,200 pounds 576 tons. His roads are such that in 

 good weather he can haul one ton and make one trip a day. If a 

 driver and team be valued at $2.50 per day, how much does it cost 

 per ton to deliver his corn to market? How much per ton per mile? 

 (41 cents) Would this latter figure be approximately true whether 



