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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 13, 1020 
for Permanence 
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If you expect eggs in winter, you must feed 
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The Snow and the Roads 
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Breaking Country Roads 
Clark Allis of Orleans County. New 
York, has the following article iu the 
Fruit Grower: 
“ ‘The sins of the fathers shall he vis¬ 
ited unto the third and fourth genera¬ 
tions.’ aud their mistakes farther than 
the third aud fourth generation, for nar¬ 
row-tread sleighs and cutters date back 
in this country to the time when snows 
were much deeper than now and settlers 
lived far apart, and the shoveling and 
breaking of roads, or merely tracks, was 
such a burden that the track was made 
as narrow as oxen could break them, and 
sleighs were made to fit the track. The 
mistake was made in having sleighs and 
sleds built with tread so narnv that 
horses which follow the oxen crowd and 
push each other so at times it is impos¬ 
sible to work them or even get home with 
a load, if the snow softens and begins 
to ‘slump.’ The ‘narrow-tread’ sleigh tips 
over with hardly any excuse, while a 
standard tread very seldom overturns. 
“Iu many places the worst way pos¬ 
sible of ‘breaking’ the roads is followed, 
a snow plow is used that pushes the snow 
out of the road, leaving it ridged on both 
sides of the narrow track. These ridges 
I cause the snow to drift in. and drifting 
fills the track higher and higher, until 
it is dangerous and almost impossible to 
j meet or pass anyone with any kind of 
' vehicle on the roads in Winter when 
there lias been snow. 
“The correct way to break roads is to 
use a harrow, disk pulverizer, eultipaokcr 
or some tool such as all farmers have, to 
keep the track wide enough and packed 
hard so wagons, sleighs and autos can 
be used as occasion demands, as many 
times roads running in one directioi may 
be entirely hare and sleighing impossible, 
while roads in others directions are full 
of snow. Horses used on snow roads 
broken for ‘narrow-tread’ sleighs many 
times cut each other and themselves when 
crowding, by their sharp shoes, where, if 
a ‘wide tread’ had been broken they 
would travel much easier and not crowd 
With so many farmers owning autos and 
most of the rural mail being distributed 
by auto, it is squarely up to the farmers 
to meet the automobile associations in 
any attempt that is made to keep roads 
open in Winter aud broken out so doctors 
and mail carriers can do their work as 
easily and quickly as possible, for many 
doctors now do nn‘ ’ r ■ < horses, and a 
drifted reed U-eans: ’''tor where a 
doctor’s visit migl ’ ... saved a life. 
* Toy n ti.Meri; - in many places 
sliou'd rrcciv . ou on road work 
in Winter, ..s L.o ngh f rn' 1 wrong way 
in Winter is as vital to good roads as in 
Summer. For several years I have been 
in favor of a law forbidding the manu¬ 
facture and sale of ‘narrow-tread’ sleighs, 
cutters and bobs, but if allowing the ones 
in use to be worn out. this would work 
no harm to anyone, and would allow 
narrow-trend vehicles to be used the same 
as now. also wide tread. I believe it 
should be the duty of farmers, grangers 
aflid everyone conncted with farm organi¬ 
zations to work with all .into clubs for 
n ‘wide-tread’ track for Winter.” 
Keeping the Roads Open 
In regard to the discussion about keep¬ 
ing the main roads open for cars in the 
Winter, would say that it seems imprac¬ 
ticable in this section. It has been almost 
impossible to keep the roads open for any 
kind of travel for several days at a time, 
and rather than spend time and money 
wouldn’t it be better to make passable 
some of the branch roads for loads? Some 
of the farmers back three miles from 
town are kept from drawing their produce 
by the condition 
with the weather. 
A short time ago, on 
road here, several cars 
through for a few days, 
other storm and travel 
the cars had left the road in such a con¬ 
dition that from one to four loads tipped, 
over or were forced to unload for several 
days, all this on one mile of road. The 
farmers hack ou the hills are going over 
fences, through fields and over snow from 
three feet up, and should he helped first, 
then open the State road and make it 
passable for cars and sleighs with a load 
of baled hay. t.. a. b. 
Avoea. N. Y. 
>f the roads, t: gethef 
the main State 
managed to get 
Then came an- 
was stopped, hut 
Keeping the Lincoln Highway Clear 
From information I have just had to¬ 
day, though whether or not it is official 
T do not know, it appears we shall not 
have to worry about the Lincoln Highway 
being kept open during the snowbound 
period of another Winter. The Highway 
Department of the State contemplates 
rotary snow plows to do the work, or my 
informant was talking without authority. 
It is almost aw necessary to keep this 
highway open now as during war times, 
as it is a regularly used artery of trans¬ 
portation. at times reminding us of a 
partly grown infant Pennsylvania railroad 
main line, which it parallels from here to 
Philadelphia. Traffic was resumed here 
a few days after the worst blizzard, the 
road being opened wherever it was abso¬ 
lutely necessary. Where the snow was 
, not over the hood of the trucks they but¬ 
ted through some way. and the track the 
j first one made would have made any self- 
1 respecting suake think he had tanked up 
