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Outdoor Problems of the Householder: Roads

Earth Roads. - A considerable majority of all the public roads in the United States are of earth. These vary in character according to the soil of each locality. Some communities are favored by nature with a convenient supply of gravel, or of stone suitable for road making when treated by the stone crusher. But elsewhere are large tracts of country in which no such materials are to be had. Reliance must usually be placed upon means of treating the native soils over which the road passes.

These vary from pure sand, through all sorts of admixture of sand, loam, marl and clay, to solid beds of clay.

Pure sand or pure clay present among the most difficult of all conditions.