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Show IMiEX ENTIMi HUES OX FARMS. J Kxperimer.ee has shown that fire.: prevention should be universally Practiced. Tile farmer, however, should give special attention to the elimination of fire hazzards and the. adoption of protective methods. This ! is true for several reasons. In the; first place, his house, barn and outbuildings out-buildings are usually constructed of i onibustiiile materials; being more or less isolated, they are subject to light- j niug strokes; kerosene and gasolene: are likely to be stored about the : i remises and used for light and pow- ! er; he must I'll his barn with hay. i straw and feed which are subject to spontaneous combustion, and. last but not leas;, he is usually outside of t h protection ot a fir? department. Too oL'ten a fire once sum ted i:i a farm building results in a touil loss, while the owner stands sadly by with his family and his neighbors, and wishes that he had taken some of those precautions pre-cautions which he had been considering. |