One of the greatest needs of our country is good public roads. The reason we do not have them wherever needed is not primarily because of the cost of building them, for in the last quarter of the century we have spent more money for other things not half as valuable or half as much needed than would be required to pay for the building of good roads to and through every place having any considerable population. The purpose of this bulletin is to call the attention of children in the schools to the importance of good roads, and to this means of protecting them and beautifying them and making travel more comfortable and attractive over them. This bulletin contains brief statements about the importance of good roads, the history of road building in this and other countries, the custom of planting trees on the roadside, and other material that can be used in observing Good Roads Arbor Day. A bibliography is included. (Contains 9 Illustrations.) [Best copy available has been provided.]
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
- Education Level
- Elementary Secondary Education
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- ['Historical Materials', 'Reports - Descriptive']
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- It contains brief statements about the importance of 3
- It is passing from bad to tion thair the unwise and unstudied planting of many trees. -IV 5
- It stands for neighborliness and best of all it leaves 6
- Nature of its tcork.The office has been most systematic and 7
- It endeavors to laboratory has been establishedm pictures are frequently more 7
- The Indian found it most con- 7
- They were the driest courses. The winds 8
- In the last quarter of the eighteenth century private 8
- The Romans. The Romans were the greatert road builders of In the zenith of Roman 8
- Incas. The Incas in Peru built roads that compared well with 9
- Tresaguet a French engineer of the latter part 9
- In the selection CI shade trees for roadside printing for American roads. The apple trees 13
- Therefore if fruit trees are planted pro- 14
- With the larger abundance of nuts and fruits Ile temptation to 14
- The hickey walnut and butternut ar6411 adapted to the 14
- Especially are they instructed to straighten young trees .iit by In this little State there are 800 14
- Belgium.In 1908 the fruit trees along .the public roads in the India.In India many of the roadside trees are fruit trees. 14
- It is the dot of the tree warden to preserve trees from injury by for setting out and maintaining public shade trees. 15
- New I ork.A law of the State of New York enacted in 1869 pro- 18
- Talk about it. that is needed to see the action in the story and to reprodnce it. 20
- It is the play of the imagination 20
- With all the free literature at the 24
- Write 4 the Secretary of Agriculture for Bulletin 25
- Keep watch for. gplaces in the school road. 26
- Put a little grain 27
