Show lame ON TIIE TIM the ne farmer has a very real interest in the fire menace nearly one fourth of the annual mat national ional fire loss or occurs on fanna farms and fann farm tires fires account for deaths the farm arm tire fire victim suiter suffers greater proportionate loss than the victim of 0 a city lire fire the latter may ma lose hi his home or his place of business but rarely both when the farm form home burns the fre fire oten wipes out barm barn and a 0 her buildings perhaps destroy lus the tile de ot of a life time ef of work inthe cure for the farm ami tire fire ifft I 1 as in tre tie tr ti e city unremitting cars care and dili diligence vence and find better fire fighting facilities progress in this direction haa has been made macle in ft it number of states first class rural fire de Par garments ments are made pos possibly by motorized fire apparatus rood good roads and telephones ingenuity has been shown by rural fire fighters ta in lack of water ulc the use of tad null tunics A fr iffa A multiple hone hose connections and relay relays ot of trucks some departments use lite chemical only ach satch are extremely effect he in n fleeing the common root roof fire fires an iowa law has townships to vote a tax for the maintenance of fire either in or tn in conjunction unction with other con coni the bulk of states hc however weier lag behind in rural tire fire protection and there Is a general lack of efficient modern facilities As ft a result the fanner farmer bean bears a giager eha shareef the ire fire ion loss both in lives and end property than other classes ot of aitt itie me adequate denlo development pm nt of f the farm form fre ire department alore with the dissemination of know irdee on how to prevent fire of fers a erule fertile field for interested in the farmers welfare i |