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It is tilling to be sure, but from the time the roots of sod is cut off, till a perfect disintegration is reached, sod is a soft spongy mass of decaying vegetation and when soaked full ot water in the center of a nicely graded road produces a soft center. The water oozing therefrom softens the sides to such an extent that the wheels of vehicles cut deep into the mud.
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