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ROAD WORK
Some Important and Prac
tical Facts.
U. S. Office of Public Roads Tells
How to Hake and Main,
tain a riodel Earth
Road.
While American road builders
are as capable of constructing
good roads as those of any coun
try of the old world, they have
not been as loyally supported as
the men of those countries in
maintaing the highways after
completion, and the deplorable
state of many hundred thousand
miles of road is thus accounted
for. County and township offi
cials may at the outset stand the
expense of having a road built,
but they strenuously object when
asked to provide funds to rebuild
the road that has been al Wed to
go to ruin.
It is important that farmers
learn of the benefits to be de
rived from good earth roads; that
county boards be impressed with
the need of a proper maintenance
of the same, and that road build
ers and overseers learn how best
to care for the roads in their
charge.
The persistent and powerful
-enemies of earth roads are water
and narrow tires, and the con
stant effort of the men in charge
of the roads should be to guard
against their destructive effects
and remedy all damage as quickly
as possible. The simple imple
ments which have been found to
be of greatest assistance in this
work are the plow, the drag
scraper, the wheel scraper, the
road grader, and the split-log
With a sandy soil and a subsoil
clay, or clay and gravel, deep
plowing so as to raiSfc and mix the
clay with the surface soil and
sand will prove beneficial. The
combination forms a sand-clay
road at a trifling expense. On
the other hand, if the road be
entirely of sand a mistake will be
made if it is plowed unless clay
can be added. Such plowing
would merely deepen the sand,
and at the same time break up
the small amount of hard surface
material which may have formed.
If the subsoil is clay and the sur
face scant in sand or gravel,
plowing should not be resorted to
as it would result in a clay sur
face rather than one of sand. A
road foreman must know not on
ly what to plow and what not to
plow, but how and when to plow.
If the road is of the kind which
according to the above instruc-
tions should be plowed over its
whole width, the best method is
to run the first furrow in the
middle of the road and work out
to the sides, thus forming a
crown. Results from such plow
ing are greatest in the spring or
early summer.
In ditches a plow can be used
to good advantage, but should be
followed by a scraper or grader.-
To make wide, deep ditches noth
ing better than the ordinary drai
scraper has yet been devised. For
hauls under 100 feet, or in mak
ing ‘•fills” it is especially servic
eable. It is a mistake, however,
to attempt to handle long haul
material with this scraper, as the
wheel scraper is better adapted
to such work. For hauls of more
than*Boo feet, a wagon should be
The machine most generally
used in road work is the grader,
or road machine. This machine
is especially useful in smoothing
and crowning the road and in
opening ditches. A clay subsoil
under a thin coating of soil should
not be disturbed with a grader.
It is also a mistake to use a
* grader indiscriminately and to
pull material from ditches upon
a sand-clay road. Not infre
quently turf, soil and silt trorn
ditch bottoms are piled in the
middle of the road in a ridge,
making mudholes a certainty, it
It is important in using a grader
to avoid building up the road too
much at one time. A road grad
ually built up by frequent use ot
the grader will last better than 1
completed . one operation, ioe
foreman frequently thinks his
iOuu muse be high m the first u.-
stance. He piles up material
from 10 inches to a foot in depth
only to learn, with the arrival of
the first rain, that he has fur
nished the material for as many
inches of mud. All material
should be brought up in thin lay
ers, each layer well puddled and
firmly packed by roller or traffic
before the next is added. A com
mon mistake is to crown too high
with the road machine on a nar
row road.
The split log drag should be
used to fill in luts and smooth
the road when not too badly
washed. The drag possesses
great merit and is so simple in
construction and operation that
every farmer should have one.
A special article will be pub
lished later telling how to make
and use the drag.
PLATFORM OF O. H. B. BLOOD
WORYH.OF nONROECOUNTY
CANDIDATE FOR
CONGRESS
I Favor:
Postal Savings Bank and a
graduated income and Inheri
tance tax.
A Parcels Post limited to the
route upon which the parcels is
sold, and loop routes connected
therewith.
An extension of the rural route
System and increased pay for
the Rural Route Carries.
Such Immigraton Laws as
would keep from our land unde
sirable immigrants of every
class.
A law which would close the,
mails to all concerns for the
future delivery of all fai.n pro
ducts when no actual delivery is
contemplated and commonly
known as “Futures.”
A law requiring all banks
where in public money is depos
ited to pay interest thereon.
The passage of a law i s
would turn into the treasury of
each of the Southei n Spates her
proportion of the money taken
from our people by the illegal
cotton tax. Georgia’s portion of
this fund is about sll, OCO,OOO.
The Legislature of Georgia could
distribute the money -to those en
titled to it, and were the heirs
are all dead it could be used to
pay Confederate pensions and
to pay Public Schools teachers,
or for such other purposes as the
Legislature might direct.
The passage of such laws as
would prevent the Federal Judic
iary from interfering with affairs
that properly belong to the state
Counts.
A Tariff for revenue only, but
would labor to have these taxes
so laid as woud be for the best
interests of my section. Articles
of prime necessity I would place
upon the free list and the heaviest
duties on luxuries. Trusts, man
ufacturing articles on the free
list and competition in them open
to the world.
A prohibitionist all my life,
both by precept and practice, I
have opposed the sale of whiskey,
have long advocated a law which
would prevent the shipping of
intoxicating liquors into dry
communities, and if elected to
Congress would actively urge the
passage of such a law.
I am opposed to:
The present monetary system
by which the right to issue mon
ey is farmed out to the National
Banks, enabling them to expand
or contract the amount of money
in circulation, the big city banks
to “corner” our cash and pro
duce a money panic at wil 1 .
Believing the right to issue mon
ey is a sovereign right reserved
to Congress, I believe all money
should be issued by the gover
inent and in ample quantity to
meet all the demand:? of legiti
mate business. Such a system
would cause crops to move
promptly and enable us to get
for them their value.
To extravagant expenditure of
the money of the Government,
to all subsidies and special privi
leges.
. NOW
is the time to build. Lumber has
started back up.
DON’T
wait until fall, for it will be high
er. We have got the lumber.
Build while it is cheap.
Jackson Lumber Cos.
Announcement^
■ For Solicitor General.
To the voters of the Flint Circuit:
I am a candidate for Solicitor General
of the Flint Circuit, subject to the pri
mary as may he ordered by the democratic
executive committee.
If elected, I propose to be Solicitor, and
do my full duty, as I see it, to the best of
my ability.
Hoping I may have your support, and
with assurances of esteem. 1 am,
Yours truly,
,1. W. WISE.
For Solicitor General.
To the Voters of the Flint Circuit;
I am a candidate for Solicitor General
of the Flint Circuit, subeect to the primary
to be ordered by the State Democratic Ex
ecutive Coimuitte.
I will appreciate all support gien me,
and. if elected will discharge the duties
of the office to the la-st of my ability.
E. >l. SMITH.
McDonough, Ga. , Jan. 1, 1008. #
For Solicltpr General.
I am a candidate for Solicitor General of
the Flint Circuit, and will be grateful for
your vote and support
, J. M. Strickland
Griffin, Ga.
For State Treasurer.
To the people of Georgia:—l am cnndl
dldate for treasurer of tills suite subject to
the action of the democratic party at its
next primary. In making tills announce
ment I confidently refer to my long service
in this department of tliestate government,
covering a period of more than 20 years,
looking after the financial interests of tills
state and the interests of the depositors in
the various banks to the entire satisfaction
of the people as sufficient guarantee that
the duties pertaining to this important trust
will be well nnd faithfully performed If
again placed in my charge.
I honestly solicit the support of the vofers
of Butts county.
WILLIAM J. SPEER.
For Congress.
he voters of the Sixth Congressional
District:—l am a candidate for Congress
subjoct to the Democratic nomination.
Before the election —the date of which lias
not been lixed—l would like to grasp the
hand and speak face to face with each voter
in the district, but tills will hardly be pos
sible. Hence, I shall endeavor to reach
voters and make known my platform—my
views on public questions—through the
medium of letters, the newspapers and pub
lic nddresses.
Whereof I speak I will bo glad to have my
distinguished opponent meeY me in Joint
debate; and shall Invite him to do so.
Believing in a clean election and an hon
est ballot,l am opposed to the use of money,
whiskey, or any ot her tiling for the purpose
of purchasing votes; and believe the Ex
ecutive Committee should refusodeclare ns
the nominee anyone whosecures a majority
by such practices.
Dshnll keep an itemized statement <>f my
campaign expenses subject at all times to
public inspection.
Not counting the Republican regime just
after the war, and when there was a Repub
lican Congressman whose home was in Ma
con, Bibb county has had—with the excep
tion of two years—tlie Congressman con
tinuously for over a third of a century. Hon.
j. H. Blount was In congress twenty years
nnd Judge Burtlett, at the expiration of the
present term of office, will have served
fourieen years, making ft grnnd total of
thirty-four years for only two men and both
from Bibb county.
Is it not about time for Bibb to divide
honors with the other counties of the dis
trict? Very Respectfully,
O. H. B. BLOODWOHTH.
For Congress.
To the voters of the Sixth Concessional
Districtl am ft candidate for re-election
to Congress su hject to the Democratic Pri
mary to be held oil the 4th of June.
It has been my constant nlm and ambition
to serve faithfully the people of the 1
Sixth District, nnd I think m.V record In
Congress, of which I Invite the closest scrut
iny,'will demonstrate that I have done so.
Always at my post of duty, I have ever
defended my party and my people.
If returned to Congress, I pledge the peo
ple of my District the same steadfast ad
herence to the principles of Democracy that
has marked my record in the past, and the
same prompt and faithful attention that I
haveat all times strlyen to give to the re
quests and needs of my constituents.
The prospects for a Democratic House In
the next Congress are more favorable than
they have been for many years, and In the
event our Party should succeed In the fall
elections, my long experience In Congress
would enable me to render my constituents
and the country more efficient service t bun
has been possible In a Republican House.
Keeling deeply grateful for your confi
dence In the past, I ask your support In the
coming primary.
Respectfully Yours,
C. L. BARTLETT,
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