THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
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HOW TO MAINTAIN
AN EARTH ROAD
Dirt Road Must Re Crowned and
Drained—Then Dragged After
Rains to he a Ciood Road.
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If you look at the ordinary
country road after a shower you
will see small puddles along the
wheel ruts and sometimes larger
^ools.
This water stays on the road
-urface because it cannot drain
away into the side ditches. If
you look closely you will see
side ditches which have grown
up with bushes and weeds in
many cases, and which are so
far from the traveled part of
the road that the rain water
does not drain into them.
inai pail 01 uie lwuuwaj
where the wagons travel i
ed the traveled way. To pre
vent water from standing on
the traveled way the road
should be raised in the center
and should slope into broad, shal
low ditches. It is then said to
have a crown. If it is ten feet
from the center of the road to
uhe side ditch, the surface at
the side ditch should be at least
ten inches lower than it is at
the center where the horses
travel. The road then has a ten
inch crown.
The rain that falls on a road
properly crowned will run quick
ly to the side and not soak into
the surface or form pools. Tht
side ditches for surface watei
should run parallel to the right
of-way, and should be open at
every point so that the watei
can run out of them into tht
neighboring boroks or streams
If the ditches merely collect tht
water from the road surface anc
it cannot run away, large pools
will be formed along the road
side, which will gradually soali
into the soil beneath the road
and make it so soft that the
wheels of wagons will cul
through the road surface anc
soon destroy it.
Sometimes water runs from
land along the road into the
road and forms a little stream
down the wheel tracks or in the
middle where the horses travel,
When driveways into farm
yards are built across the side
ditches, they frequently form
channels for water from the
farm yard to run into the road.
The pipes under driveways be
come filled with leaves or rub
Lighten the Housework
A plain iron sink returns very
little for the effort spent upon it.
A few minutes spent in cleaning a
^tMtdahd" white enameled sink
and you have a veritable beauty
spot of radiance.
Our catalogue of sinks is very
interesting with its wall hanging,
corner and recess patterns. It is
free to all interested in good
plumbing and good fixtures.
W. R- Whitten
McLair. Bldg. Phone 15-1
bish and the water can no long
er run away. If the driveway
that stop the ditch water were
rebuilt so that r.o pipe- were
necessary arid the ditch could be
left open, much trouble fiom
surface water would be .-Topped.
Sometimes a road runs across
low ground or through a swamp
where the road cannot be drain
ed by side ditches alone. If the
1 road were* built higher like a
railroad embankment across
’ such low land and made with a
crown, it would be dry and hard.
Sometimes a road passes
! through what is called a cut.
This is a place where the earth
i has been dug out so that the
1 road can go over a hill without
1 being too steep. The water
Which always flows quietly un
I der the ground on hill sides is
1 known as ground water. In
! road cuts such water sometimes
! makes the road very muddy, and
the road then needs what road
'builders call underdrainage. A
i good kind of underdrainage is
ja trench to go along under the
side drain and about three feet
deep and a foot and a halw wide.
In this trench a pipe is laid
'near the bottom and covered
with loose stones no bigger than
an egg. When the trench is
completely filled with loose
stones the ground water, instead
of soaking into the roadway, will
stop among the stones and flow
down the hil! through the pipe.
To keep a road smooth and
crowned the best method is to
drag it with a roa ddrag. A orad
drag is made easily with two
halves of a log which has been
split. The log should be about
six or eight inches in thickness
and about six or eight feet long.
The two halves of the log are set
three feet apart with the smooth
faces forward and upright. They
are then fastened together with
braces set in holes bored through
the log. A pair of horses may
be used to drag the road and
are hitched to a chain fastened
to the front half of the log.
The road drag should move
forward so that it slants acros
the road in such a way that a
small amount of earth will slide
toward the center of the road
past the smooth face of the log
thus forming the crown. The
edges of the logs will smooth
out the ruts. The best way tc
drag is to begin at the side ditch
and go up one side of the road
and then down the other. Ir
the next trip the drag should be
started a little nearer the cen
ter and the last trip over the
road the drag may work close tc
the center itself. Small ridges
of earth will be thrown in the
horse track and smeared by
the round side of the log smooth
ly over the road.
The smearing ot the earth by
the drag is called “puddling'
and it tends to make the surface
of the road smooth and water
tight after the sun comes out
The road is always dragged af
ter it has rained and not when
it is dry. A good, strong pair
of horses with a well-built drag
can drag three or four miles of
road in a day, and it is the best
way to maintain good roads. In
every" county seat some farmer
along each four miles of road
should own a drag and drag the
road when it rains. He would
always find the road in good con
dition when he goes to market.
—Extract From a Government
Report of the Department of
Agriculture.
Interest in 1000 Mile Auto Race
Memphis, Tenn., June 15—In
terest is spreading throughout
the South for the big 100 mile
Automobile race to be run on the
{famous two minute course
I North Memphis Driving Park on
July 4th is demonstrated by the
! fact that we have just received
two more entries from out of
town.
The Jonesboro Auto Co. will
! enter a Case racer in an effort to
annex the Tri-State trophy in
GET READY
FOR YOUR
Summer
VACATION
—
There are a great
number of resorts
in the North and
West along the
Rock Isl 11 d
Lines
It s not too early to prepare
Let us help you
to
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I addition to the biggest slice of
the $1000 in cash purses.
Jackson, Miss, will be repre
sented by a thirty horse power
Mitchell. Henry Thompson of
that place has sent in his entry
and will drive his own car.
A number of requests for re
servations have been received at
■ Race headquarter- Michigan
Motor Car Co. 4th and Monroe
Streets.
Official Song For Arkansas.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, June 12.—Arkan
sas ha3 a chance to get a song
dedicated to Arkansas alone.
Mont Finch, a St. Louis song
writer, has written to Governor
J. M. Futrell that He has com
posed a ballad entitled “My Old
Arkansas Home,” which he
wishes made the official song of
Arkansas. He declares that the
appointment of a commission to
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select a state ballad is unfair to
the contestants who base their
efforts on merit, for some bit of
humor is liable to catch the fan
cy of the commission and the ar
tistic creations are side tracked.
He asks the governor to consider
his song, and have it played and
sung, and then give it to the peo
people for their own. Finch says
this is the way to make a state
song popular among the people.
He asks for no money, but in a
diplomatic way intimates the
state might bestow a fitting to
ken as a mark of appreciation.
Tucker To Raise Pheasants.
Captain F. W. Tucker was up
from Little Rock this week
looking after his Clover Bend
plantation. He says he never
in his life saw crops look so uni
versally good at this time of the
year. Captain Tucker is always
doing things and looking out for
innovations. Hear him: “I am
going into the pheasant business.
John Ginnochio of Little Rock
gave me eleven Chinese pheas
ant eggs #which I propose to
have hatched. What will I do
!with them? I have a thousand
acre timber pasture on my plan
i tation. and 1 expect to turn
| them into that pasture. They
j are of a wild nature and increase
very rapidly. Their plumage is
beautiful, they have a red head
and a long green tail. In rais
ing these birds in captivity they
have to be fed two weeks on
boiled eggs and crackers, after
that time they make their own
living. The last elgislature
made it a penitentiary offense
to kill a pheasant under five
years from date. These birds
are fine eating, beautiful to look
j at and I am looking forward to
| the time when I will have the
woods full of them.”—Walnut
Ridge Blade.
Democrats to Be Substituted.
j Special to Independent.
1 Little Rock, June 12.—Ac
cording to reports from what is
considered an authentic source,
Federal office holders in Arkan
sas, who have yet a considerable
portion of an unexpired term
before them, will soon be retired
to private life and a Democrat I
placed in office instead. The re
port is that the officials will be
requested to send in their resig
nations, as has been done al
ready in several instances, and if
these are not forthcoming, an
order of dismissal will be issued.
In most instances those who
will be affected by the order
have been for a number of years
in the employ of the govern
ment.
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