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Show Take Your Cue From CSU It's "fix-up" time on the farm and in the farm home. Those repairs and remodeling jobs that are not done between now and May, won't get done until this time next year. Your college of Southern Utah offers some pertinent per-tinent suggestions: (1) Be sure the porch and stair I rails are sturdy. A weak rail is worse than none because it may give false confidence. I (2) See that the upper floor has more than one exit in case the main stairway should be blocked in an emergency. A sec ' ond stairway is desirable; but I if it cannot be provided, an emergency em-ergency exit may be a window; opening onto a flat or low-pit-j ched roof. The window should : open easily, and a storm sash or screen should be a type that I can be quickly removed. I (3) Select floor coverings for .entry ways', kitchen, and bathroom bath-room that will not be slippery : when wet. When waxing a floor, I use a thin coat and rub it in well. Some waxes are non-skid backing back-ing for small rugs. Install grab ; bars at a bathtub or shower stall. (4) If the light in the bathroom i turner! fin hv a ni'.'l chain in- I stead of a wall switch, be sure the chain is nonmetallic or at least the lower end is nonconduc ting. (5) Never turn a blow torch 'on a frozen pipe to thaw it. Built I up steem and pressure may cause 'an explosion. Protect pipes a-i a-i gainst freezing by locating them on outside walls or by insulating them. (G) Provide clear visibility where the farm driveway enters a pub,'ic road. Y'ou should be able , to see several hundred feet in l each direction. Many farm en- trances could be made safer by cleanipg brush from a fence cor- j ner, or pruning projecting tree branches, or removing a hedge. |