Best Roads for Farms and Farming Districts

Excerpts: So few really good roads have been made in purely agricultural districts that experience avails but little toward determining what will best serve the needs and suit the means of the average farmer. In the first place, the road that will best suit the needs of the farmer must not be too costly; in the second place, it must be of the very best kind, for the farmer should be able to do his heavy hauling over it when his fields are too wet to work and his teams are free. The roads which have been built by counties have not always satisfied the farmers who had to use them. In some portions of Ohio we find the country people in dry weather traveling in the ditches to save the bare feet of their horses from the rough stone.