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Show u - or . . . Column '. . . Safety Check-Ups Accidents happen only too often from dangerous -conditions that have been neglected. In one yeai 1942 accidents caused 93,00C deaths and 9,200,000 injuries, and cost $5,200,000,000. About 5 percent of these losses occurred on farms Help stop this mounting toll of unnecessary un-necessary loss and waste. To protect the family and property prop-erty from fire, the home owner should regularly inspect and clean chimneys and stovepipes; avoid using kerosene or gasoline to start fires; insulate wooden partitions and structural features near stoves or stovepipes; store inflammables at a safe distance from farm buildings; build-ings; keep kerosene and other burners clean and adjusted; provide pro-vide fire extinguishers and fire fighting materials. To protect from falls, use safe ladders, securely fastened; sturdy handrails for steps, porches, and stairways; keeping steps, porches and stairways in repair and clear of all tripping hazards; wells, cisterns cis-terns and pits securely covered. To protect from farm animals the best precautions are penning male breeding animals, using care in handling animals with newborn young, keeping vicious dogs tied up, and speaking to animals before entering stalls. Tools and machinery on farms are constant sources of danger, to be handled only by experienced operators and stored in such a way that they do not fall into the hands of children. But accidents will happen, and the degree of injury in-jury may often be reduced by having hav-ing first-aid materials on hand and knowing how to use them. Phosphate Supplies Become Available to Farmers Most farmers in Utah do not have fertilizer distributing equipment, equip-ment, and the general practice has been to apply the fertilizer broadcast broad-cast on top of the soil and to work it into the seedbed. This method has generally proved wasteful. It has been found that if the fertilizer fertiliz-er is placed in a band a short distance dis-tance from the seed, comparable increases in crop yields may be obtained ob-tained with half the quantity used in broadcast applications. Another type of fertilizer distribution distri-bution that has given good results with phosphate is a fertilizer plow attachment which drops a band cf fertilizer in the bottom of each plow furrow. Fertilizer applications should be made at seeding time or applied as side dressings during the growing se-ason. Phosphate fertilizers gradually grad-ually react with soil and are rendered ren-dered insoluble, and hence they should also be applied as nearly as possible to the time they will' he used by the plant. Benefits of phosphate fertilizer frequently lasts three or four years. Crops which respond well to phosphate fertilizer include alfalfa, clover, mixed pasture, sugar beets, and to a somewhat lesser degree tomatoes and peas. It is usually best to apply phosphate to crops which respond best to it and to follow fol-low this crop with a crop having a lower phosphate requirement. Thus land plowed out of alfalfa which h.id been recently phosphated and planted to potatoes e,r corn would not usually need additional fertilizer. fertiliz-er. It is not too early to spend con- |