Show losses lossee from fires can be limited by careful inspection rural fire losses can be greatly limited if farmers will make regular careful inspections of their farmstead buildings g with a view toward disc discovering g and reducing fire hazards a report made by the department of agriculture to the fe ional a I 1 fire protection assoria 1 D aana a ni d issued through the utah b etyce A agricultural g ri cultural college reveals D definite finite ions are offered in the depar departments mEnts report ahey include suggestions that farm buildings be constructed at right angles to the direction of prevailing winds in order that sparks will not be carried from building to building by the wind currents farmers are also urged to design roofs of a fire resistant substance and furnaces stoves and stovepipes stove pipes should be properly installed and regularly regul aily inspected it is pointed out chimneys should be regularly cleaned of soot this can te le don by lowering a sack containing a few bricks or rocks down the chimney from above A system of grounded conductors should be set up to give protection against ande and c re should I 1 e taen en findling fondling and storing substances substances ashes and rubbish hollow spaces between walls should be closed at each floor line to prevent quick spread of flames from one story to another ladders and fire extinguishers should be kept handy losses from rural fires average an estimated a minute in the united states and annual costs are set at |