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Field of Sun Tobacco, Calvary, Ga
To prevent water from standing ditch could be le
on the traveled way the road trouble from surf
should be raised in the center stopped,
and should slope gently into Sometimes a 1
broad shallow ditches. It is then ground or thro
said to have a crown, if it is 10 where the road c
feet from the center of the road e d by side ditche
to the side ditch, tho surface at road were built h
the side ditch should be at least road embankme
10 inches lower than it is at the low land and mai
center where the horses travel, it would be dry a
The road then'has a 10 inch crown, times a road ]
The rain that falls on a road pro- “
perly crowned will run quickly
to the side and not soak into the
surface or form pools. The side
ditches for surface water should
run parallel to the right of way,
and should be open at every low
point so that the water can run
nut of them , into neighboring
brooks or streams. It the ditch
es merely.collect the water from
the road surface dnd it can not
run away, large pools will be
formed £$long the roadside, which
will gradually soak into the soil
beneath the road and make it so
soft that the wheels of wagons
will cufc through the road surface
and soon destroy it.
Pelham & Havana Railway Depot, Calvary, Ga,
Grady County Progress--Special Edition.
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Calvary Supply Company, Calvary, Ga.
THE REPAIR AND MAINTAINANCE OF EARTH ROADS.
If you look at the ordinary
country road after a shower you
will see small puddles along the
Sometimes water runs from
land along the road into the road
and forms a little stream down
wheel ruts 2nd sometimes larger the wheel tracks or in the middle
pools. This water stays on the where the horses travel. When
road surface because it cannot driveways into farm yards are
drain away into the side ditches, built across the side ditches they
If you look closely you will see freduently form channels for
side ditches which have grown water from the farm yard to run
up with bushes and weeds in into the road. Tne pipes under
many cases, and which are so far
from the traveled part of the
road that the rain water does not
drain into them. That part of
the roadway where the wagons
travel is called the traveled way.
driveways become filled with
leaves or rubbish and the water
can no longer run away. If the
driveways that stop the ditch
water were rebuilt so that no
pipes were necessary and the
what is called a cut. This is a
place where the earth has been
dug out so that the road can go
over a hill without being too
steep. The water which always
flows quietly under the ground
on hill sides is known as ground
water. In road cuts such water
sometimes makes the road very
muddy, and the road then needs
what road builders call under
drainage. A good kind of un
derdrainage is a trench to go
along under the side drain and
about 3 feet deep and a foot and
a half wide. In this trench a
pipe is laid near the bottom and
covered with loose stones no big
ger than egg. When the trench
is completely filled with loose
stones the ground water, in
stead of soaking into the road
way, will stop among the stones
and flow down the hill through
the pipe.
• To keep a road smooth and
crowned the best method is to
drag it with a road drag. A road
drag is made easily with two
halves of a log which has been
split. The log should be about 6
or 8 inches in thickness and about
6 or 8 feet long. The two halves
of the log are set 3 feet apart
with the smooth faces forward
and upright. Thep are-then fas-
tsned together with braces set
in holes bored through the log.
A pair of horses may be used lo
drag the road and are hitch ed to
a chain fastened to the front half
of the log. The rosd drag should
move forward so that it slants
across .‘the road in such a way
that a small amount of earth will
slide past the smooth face of the
log toward the center of the road,
thus forming the crown. The
edges of the logs will smooth out
the ruts. The best wav to drag
is to begin at the side ditch and
go up one side of the road, and
then down the other. In the
next trip the drag should be
started a little nearer the center
and the last trip over the road
the drag may work" close to the
center itself. Small ridges of
earth will be thrown in the horse
track and smeared by the round
side of the smoothly over the
road. The smearing of the earth
by the drag is ca'iec! “puddling”
and it tends to make the surface
of the road smooth and .water
tight after the son p U t.
Stringing Shade Tobacco at Barn of Mr. Ira Hidgon, Calvary, Ga.
The road is always dragged aftc
it has rained and not when it i:
dry. A good, strong pair -of
horses with a well-built drag can
drag about 3 or 4 miles of road
in a day, and it is the best way
to maintain good roads. In
every county some farmer along
each 4 miles of road should own
a drag and drag the road when
it rains. He would always find
the road in good condition when
he goes to market.
lotice should care to try again*
ie is at liberty to do so, but he
m 1st be a pupil of a rural school.
There is some misunderstanding
in regard to the subject of the
essay. The idea is to set the
children thinking how to better
their earth roads with the ma
terial they have at hand.
Things look good to us for a
splendid fall business for every
body in and around these dig-
gins. And we all need it too.
LEWIS W. RIGSBY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office with M. L. Ledford
CAIRO, GEORGIA.
Glenn Maxwell, a Corn Club Boy of-Calvary.
Owing to the fact that many
rural schools were closed at the
time when the prize mainten
ance essay was announced by
Director Logan Waller Page of
the Office of Public Roads, it has
been decided to extend the lemit
for receiving the essays to Oc
tober 15, 1913. In addition to
the gold medal given -as first
prize, two silver medals will be
given as second and third prizes.
If aphild who has submitted one
essay previous to the issue of this
Bible Contest.
-Some days-ago a correspondent re
quested a Bible guessing contest to
use when she entertained her Sunday
school class. Here are a few questions'
and may he helpful,. and 1 have no
doubt others may be added to make it
longer. The answer's are not given,
for it will be much more instructive if
they are looked up, with the aid of a
concordance:
Give the first and last words of the
Bible.
Whose three daughters were the
fairest in all the land?
How old was Methuselah when ho
died?
Who was called, “a ready scribe In
the law of Moses?”
Give the names of the three persons
who were put in the fiery furnace.
Who was the author of the expres
sion, “What hath God wrought?"
Who was Moses’ brother?
Who went down into a pit on a
sndwy day and slew a lion?
Who said: “The harvest Is paBt,
the summer is ended, and we are not
saved?”
Who was the mother of Samuel?
MADAME MERR1.
Vaporous Blouses.
Summer blouses of chiffon or net,
as delicate as the stuff that dreams
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even when they were first shown in
the chilly days of spring. Their own
intrinsic charm won immediate popu
larity for them then. But now, with
the days of mounting mercury at hand
this diaphanous quality is to be tho
supreme touch of elegance of the sea
son. It characterizes entire toilettes
composed of layers of net, chiffon and
filmy matrials.