The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 99

18 NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN and The Naihville American, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1916. 2SE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Tennessee Highway Department Gives Good Data on Road Construction1 res of the spilt log drag. by a hotter time a-comtn by an' byT Atlanta Constitution. addressing the Tennessee department of hlghwuys, at Nashville, any one can ie- Opposed to It. Split Log Drag Inexpensive But Sure Way to Good Roads your wheels In the same track Use wide tires on your wagons.

It saves the roads and helps yon to haul larger loads. Iton't forget this. Tho road does not helqng to the other fellow, but to you while you are using It, so help to take enre of it. ure Information relative to the use of the Irag or other matters regarding road work. Farmers desiring information re garding this important part of farm life should got acquainted with the department.

the officials of which are always glad to co-operate In the interest of good roads. simple and inexpensive method by which the farmers themselves, by co-operation, can secure a much better ByHtem of roads with practically no cost to them. Let us go farther. If the farmers of some section or alonn some road decide to Rvt together and try this scheme there will be some farmer or farmers, either renters or owners, who will refuse to go into the plan. This should not deter others from taking it up and working It all the harder.

If you do you will find that the farmer who at llrst refuses will soon become ashamed of his road and will join in and help. If he does not, suppose all you farmers on the road join in and give one day on his road to show him how cheap and narrow he is. But, you say, you don't want to do his work. Hut you will benefit by It If there Is a fanner In your neighborhood who Is too narrow and stingy to help build up your eoitimunity it is a good plan to "smoke him out." How to Build Split Log Urns' on a Knlny Day. Take a log of some hard wood, preferably oak, burr oak, chestnut, cedar, hickory, walnut or nny kind of almllnr wood, about 7 or Inches in diameter and from to 8 feet long, and split in the middle.

The log should be sound, and if possible seasoned, to make It last better. Itallroad ties are frequently used. Core two-inch nupret holes In each log. Get two Btleks or poles 3 or 4 inches In diameter and about 3 feet long. Trim the ends to lit, and after driving them In the auger IioIcb nail or bolt them tight together.

"Pop "Yes, my son." "I heard today thnt a complete washing equipment for tourists, which can be folded to occupy little space In an automobile has been Invented." "That is very nice, my boy." "Very nice? Isn't there nny place In the world a fellow con go where he doesn't have to wash Yonkers Statesman, Lester Stone left Saturday for Seattle, where he will visit kinsmen. He bought the tickets from a party that backed out, and he considers it a good bargain, sfn-h. as he always makes. I'orter (Ohio) The following general hints nre given: the split log drag on common earth and gravel roads. (Published by Authority of thn TVnnpssee Department of TliRhwnys.) Ie.

If every farmer in TenncHsee who has flirt or Brarel road imnHinj: through or by bin farm would spend from $li to $.1 buildtnjr a split log druff and then Hpeinl from two to flvn dfljB each month with a team tlniff-jfinff the road touched by bin farm dur-Inff the months of January, February and March, those farmers would receive In benefits 100 per cent profit on their Investment during the next ten months. If they would keep this up for three years systematically Tennessee would be practically free from mud roads and the farmers could haul more than twice the loads they now haul and farm values would Increase far more than the nverago man could realize. This Is not hot air. Idle tall: or dream of fancy. It 1b a mere suggchUou of a Quick Benediction.

"It's too hot for preaching," Bald the Iiillvllle brother, "nnd I don't want to shuck my coat for fear some o' you hardshell sinners rriay think I'm n'goln' to knock the citsnedness out o' you an' make break for the door or tumble through the windows; bo Just go home peaceable. whllBt we are a-slngin' of the hymn: "There's Grade your roads bo the ditches will be from 20 to 2Ti feet apart and the road surface 14 to 20 feet. This diversifies traffic and helpB prevent ruts in the joail from constant travel In the same tracks. In driving over the road avoid rnnnlng This will place the two sections of the drag ahont three feet npart. These holes should be bored In the two logs so the rear log will offset the frout log from 12 to lfl inches.

In other words, the front log will set out further In one direction THE RIDDLE COMPANY than the rear log and the rear one offset the front on the other end the same. This nllows the roar log to catch part of the dirt Tel. M. 291 160 North Second Avenue thrown off at the end of the front log. The front log should have a piece of flat Iron about three or four inches wide and half an inch thick placed along the hot David Grewar Co.

Plumbing and Heating, Gas and Electric Fixtures Electrical Work of All Kinds Church Street and Third Avenue Doors, Windows and Glass Hardwood Doors a Specialty WE ARE CLOSING OVT OUR UNE OF PAINTS AND VARNISHES Ask Our Prices ttom of the front side to cut the dirt. This should be flush with the hottom of the log. Some claim It Is better to turn the round edge of the rear log to the front so as to better spread the dirt dug up by the front log, lid in most eases the flat side of both logs are placed to the front. Some flat boards should he nailed to the front and renr logs to provide a place for the driver lo stand and these should be so ar runged that lie can stand In the center or 1 either end as the nature of the road demands, but. should not he solid over the two logs, that would cause the dirt to collect and the drag would not he us ef fectual.

A chain should be fastened about 18 Inches from either end of the front log and long enough to allow about three feet from the center of the chain (after both ends are fastened to the log) to the log. The double tree should be fastened to this chain off center enough to give the logs a. hint so that the dirt dug up will be 'I nm-ii to the center of the road. In hltch- 'ug the double tree to the chain an ordi Nashville Plumbing Co, Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting clevis may be used. The chain may be fastened to the Ion by boring a hole through either end of the log and running Mm chain through aud fasten It at the 'ark side of the log.

How find Whrn To I'm- the Split Log Draff. It Is just as Important that the road be (ragged nt the right time as It Is that the vnad be dragged at all. Due to the differ-nee in the nature of earth or gravel roads 'I Impossible to prescribe any set rules. The best time to drag a road Is when It sufficiently wet to be euslly cut by the Irag aud the dirt thrown towards the ceii-Vr of the road wH pack. However, care Iiould he taken not to attempt to dray the road when It Is too wet or muddy, or when it Is too dry.

If the road Is muddy It has a tendency to cake and will cut up worse with wagon wheel traffic. If too dry It will make It dusty. These nre only general rules. The benefits to be derived from regular und systematic use of the split log drag nre tunny fold. It Is used to grade the rood and make crown In the center, to provide ditches and better drainage and.

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McWilliams helps pack the road and ake firmer surface, thus tending to eradicate the mud. The drag cannot be used on mac adam, telford or rocky roads with nny DRAINAGE CONTRACTORS Telephone Main 487 success, but is i most heneflelal tool in Improving common earth and gravel ro uls. 149 Sixth Avenue, North High St Near Church St 1111 McCormick Building Perhaps of more importance than the 510 Exchange Building Memphia, Tenn. Chicago, 111. question of building good roads is the (uention of maintaining good roads.

The important thing about rond- bulldlng ami road-maintenance is to get the water off the road and away from the road fast as possible. This Is done by having sufficient crown In the center of the road a sur face sufficiently lnml to run water off B. FRANK FIELDS, Secretary W. H. WHORLEY, President tho road as fast as It falls and then have ditches of sufficient depth and a fall suf ficient for tho water to run nwny from the rouil as fast as possible.

Then at as fre cjuent Intervals as possible run the water Foy-Proctor Company Contractors Dixie Contracting Company Heavy Railroad Construction and Steam Shovel Work Estimates Submitted For All Kinds of Grading No. 408 INDEPENDENT LIFE BUILDING into side ditches so It will go to creeks or some place away from the road. If the road Is higher on the Bides than i In the rood bed, of course the water will not run off, but will remain in the road and make "mud-hole." Kven If the road cannot be graded so as to cut down the hills nnil fill up the ravines It can be raised In tho center and proper ditches be provided. Bock to tho plan of every farmer doing his part. It would be unnatural If there were not some people in a community and along a road who took a lead In public matters aud it would bo just as unnatural if there were not some who were reactionaries and drawbacks to a community.

That Is true In cities nnd It Is true In the country. The beBt way to make a reactionary man ashamed of himself is to make so innny nice improvements around him that lie will slip out some day and attempt to imitate. Most men who will not take a lead will follow some one who will lead. Suppose there Is a road starting from rural section and leading to the county site passing ten forma and each farm borders on about one mile of that road. Suppose, then, that one of those farmers took a half day nnd called on each of the other nine farmers and asked them to help build that road.

They could on some rainy day build a road drag on each farm or all go In together und build five or six. Then after each rain or as the road was la proper condition each farmer send one 607 Independent Life Building, Nashville, Tena Reinforced Concrete Buildings Viaducts and Dams, Street Paving and Road Building ESTABLISHED 1909 'drag and team for one day and drag the We point with pride to the many important buildings, viaducts and jreets we have constructed Telephone Main 1481 Nashville. Tenn. road in front of his farm, what do you suppose the result would be on the one or two farmers who would not go Into the proposition. Try It and see.

In this article the department etnnot go Into general detail respecting ail the feat Si:.