Show scarcity of material makes fires serious in a warning urging farmers to go beyond the usual precautionary measures in tire fire prevention charles parker president of the federal land bank or of berkeley po pointed anted out that the loss of a farm building under present conditions would be disastrous because the insurance carried could never replace a structure of any size this Is due to the one thousand dollar limit on farm buildings and the scarcity of material and manpower statistics statistics show that the majority of farm fires develop from faulty flues so now ls Is the time to check stovepipes stove pipes and chimneys barrels should be filled with water with a bucket and old sacking attached the fortunate farmers who have extinguishers should inspect and refill them with such equipment c lose close at hand a fire can often be checked before it makes headway that Is the only salvation for a larm farm blaze blaz because after it gets a bood start there Is seldom enough water pressure to extinguish lt it just how critical a rural fire Is these days Is shown in reports of ranchers who suffered grass tires fires this summer and fall line fences were burned and many found it im nos possible sible to get posts staples or barbed wire and of course the labor scarcity complicates the problem the result willbe that this spring the livestock from various ranches will intermingle and m much uc b contusion confusion and trouble will arise e |