Excerpt from Earth Roads: Hints on Their Construction and RepairAnother excellent precaution, but one rarely attended to, is the cutting away of brush and weed growth along the road, particularly around the-inside? Of a sharp' turn or bend, in order to enable one to see if any traps are coming from the opposite direction, for in these days of fast driving, when every man imagines he owns a trotter, a narrow winding road becomes dangerous unless means are provided to get out of the way of the old mare as she tears around the corner. Brush, when not cut down every season, encroaches with incredible rapidity, and spreads so fast into the gutters that if neglected it narrows the roads perceptibly, and the same thing is true of weeds and grass, although in a lesser degree, they also should be removed at least on'ce'every year. Not, however, by the following reprehensible process, which finds great favor in the eyes of roadmasters and farmers, and con sists in sending out the boy with a yoke of oxen or the hired man with a team to run a couple of furrows up and down the gutters with a plow, thereby loosening but not destroying all this vegetable growth, which is then either left to obstruct the gutters with useless ridges or ¿ung out over the road to pack down in all sorts of unequal masses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.