UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 586 
Contribution from the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering 
LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director 
Washington, D. C. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
February 28, 1918 
PROGRESS REPORTS OF 
EXPERIMENTS IN DUST PREVENTION 
AND ROAD PRESERVATION, 1916 
CONTENTS 
Page 
New Experiments: 
Russell Road, Alexandria County, Va. 2 
Alexandria-Accotink Road, Fairfax 
County, Va * . . . 15 
Gum Spring-Mt. Vernon Road, Fair- 
fax County, Va 20 
Texas Post Road, 1916, Corrugated 
Metal Culverts 27 
Supplementary Reports: 
Mt. Vernon Avenue Road, Alexan- 
dria County, Va., 1915 31 
Falls Road, Montgomery County, 
Md., 1915 . . o . . 37 
Bradley Lane, Montgomery County, 
Md., 1915 ...... o .. . 40 
Washington, D. C„ 1915 42 
Buena Vista, Fla., 1915 42 
Jupiter, Palm Beach County, Fla., 
1915 42 
West Palm Beach, Fla., 1915 ... 43 
Page 
Supplementary Reports— continued 
Ocala, Fla., 1915 44 
Lemon City, Fla., 1914 44 
West Palm Beach, Fla., 1914 ... 45 
Miami, Fla., 1913 46 
Rockville Pike, Montgomery County, 
Md., 1913 49 
Washington, D. C, 1912 52 
Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, 
Md., 1912 55 
Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, 
Md., 1911 59 
Jamaica, N. Y., 1911 62 
Ames, Iowa, 1910 * . 67 
Enoxville, Tenn., 1910 ...... 69 
Youngstown, Ohio, 1910 . . . . . ' 71 
Dodge City, Garden City, Bucklin, 
and Ford, Eans., 1908 75 
Bowling Green, Ky., 1907 .... 76 
WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1918 
