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tory to open up homestead tracts, it is here reproduced in 
full : 
“A piece of work recently completed on the north fire- 
break brought out some rather interesting — and, to most 
people, quite new — data on the building of forest roads. It 
has long been known that the scraper form of road grader was 
an excellent thing to remodel an old road or keep a new one 
in condition, but it would not generally be considered a prom- 
ising machine for making an out-and-out new road where no 
road was before. This, however, was done, and done very 
successfully. 
“It is the policy of the Forestry Board to make the fire- 
breaks in the form of roads wherever possible that the woods 
m.ay be more accessible and that the travel may keep the fire- 
break free from grass, weeds and brush. It has been the 
usual method to clear off the brush from a strip two rods 
wide, and then plow and drag this to the width of a rod. 
Where absolutely necessary some grading was done with 
the plow and slasher. The result was a road which could be 
used at a pinch, but that was all. 
“In this case the heavy brush was cut away, the larger 
stumps and stone blown out with dynamite and the road 
grader put in. Two yoke of oxen and three pairs of horses 
took the machine easily and steadily through the worst of it. 
Kocks half the size of a man’s body were scraped from their 
beds and rolled aside. The roots of the brush and the stumps 
of small saplings did not seem to bother at all. The result 
was a comparatively good road, well rounded and carefully 
graded. The cost was lower than that of the old method.” 
POINTERS FROM TENNESSEE. 
The twenty-second annual report of the Agricultural Expe- 
riment Station of Tennessee for 1909 has been received. A 
few extracts from it are given below, which may be of benefit 
to local homesteaders and dairymen. 
Value of Lime. 
Referring to trials at various places of corn, wheat, oats, soy 
beans, etc., the report says : 
“With the exception of work necessarily just begun at 
Jackson, the majority of these experiments are continuations 
of those commenced in 1905, 1906, and 1907, and are increas- 
ing in value with each additional year’s results. Lime proves 
to be of fundamental importance on the majority of soils, and 
by its use not only increased yields of legumes are obtained, 
but also of corn and wheat. The general recommendation as 
