Betty B.
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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I have not had a bit of bad butter during any of my travels in France.
And now take a look out of the tail of your eye as we fly in our motor car through some of the farming lands of the once devastated regions.
In another chapter, we shall go leisurely, stopping the automobile where we please to study the country.
This is just a snapshot.
We are riding at something less than one mile per minute through what I believe to be the most wonderful agricultural display on the face of the globe.
I have seen nothing like it in other parts of Europe or in North America, South America, or Asia.
The country is one great blanket of crops without fences or weeds or any marked divisions to separate the fields.
And the different shades of green alone show where one ends and the next one begins.
All seem to be equally rich.
Every patch is like the best show acre of one of our agricultural experiment stations.
And this is so of fields, small and large,
and for hundreds of miles on each side of the roadway.
The wonderful roads make our travel easy.
Centuries before railroads had been invented and long before America was discovered, the kings of France began to build highways.
It is now more than 500 years since the country first had public roads and a regular service for the inspection and repair of its bridges.
It has been building roads from that time to this and has enough inside the Republic, if joined together,
to reach from the Earth to the Moon, with sufficient left over to make eight Lincoln highways clear round the globe.
The national roads of France could reach almost round the Earth at the equator, and its state roads, or those kept up by the departments, could the Atlantic be bridged, might form six lines of communication between New York and Paris, each wide enough for two motor cars to pass.
The country roads alone measure 375,000 miles.
On all this great road system, there are no tolls to pay.
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