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Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine, 1915 There are other conditions, too, that tend to reduce food production, which can and ought to be changed. The present great boom for good roads - which is worthy in itself and which everybody approves, especially those who ride over them is now done during the months of May, June, July and August and it takes from agricultural labor thousands and thousands of days' work direct from the farming class which ought to be producing food. The farmers work upon the highway not only for the income that it gives them, but also because they are interested in the good-roads movement. It seems to me that the roads could be advanced even more than they are now and not interfere with the actual work of food production. The custom should 'be established, or the example set, of preparing the roadbed to be graveled during the autumn and leaving it until the late fall or winter before the gravel is put on. The following spring the gravel could be put in place by the road machine and the work entirely completed. This would leave the agricultural community free to work on the farms during the crop-growing months of summer and the compensation for the work on the road would come as a sort of gratuity, because many farm teams are idle, or nearly so, during the winter months. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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