Show farin fires T take ake tig big annu annual 1 TOM toll need for research into common problem of sp spontaneous on combustion prepared pared by the united states department 0 r LOSS of 0 a buy bar baqui 1 through fire ca caused use by spontaneous combustion at the very time the barn and the hay bay in ia it wore were standing gauding la three peet feet of wo water ter was one of the sp specific eulile examples cited by david J price of the united states department afa ot agrical burp tu hureas reas as indicating the need ford or ex eng fiFe ra research ehr i into alf the problem ol 01 what is commonly known as spon juneous tane ous particularly ol of agricultural products such buch as hay and other cattle feeds mr price dilce who la ig tho iho engineer in charge of 0 such studies in ia the bureau of chemistry andell and EU included a ii discussion i of this problem in ia an address kit at philadelphia recently before the insurance department ment of the wharton school of finance i and nd commerce at the U university ol 01 pennsylvania t feeds for winter in new england the dairy farmers require a considerable supply of hay und and other feeds for the winter whiter feeding of their herds much of this bay tg Is stored in bays reaching from the floor to tho the roof of the dairy barn ju jn the striking and unusual illustration he be cited the barn was located in the region flooded in vermont last all i flood waters entered many barns and in this one wet the hay bay to adepts a depth of 17 feet As the flood wafe waters ks receded I 1 intense heat production followed in the mass of wet hay bay spontaneous heat beat production began in the lower layers mr price said and the hot gases rising through the stacks chacks caused strongs drafts or idues flues 11 the mols mol s tore tare thus carried upward condensed in the cooler cobler parts of tife the hay bay or in the air above wetting themay in the immediate area so many of these thes drafts existed in some plies that the hay wd was thoroughly soaked temperatures in typical flues ranged from to wore more than degrees fabren fahrenheit this barn eipel experienced encee the height of the flood on F friday morning november 4 and burned late monday afternoon november T much heating was observed on sunday aidmon and monday a distinct odor of Ch arring wis was noticeable immense yearly lop this was only one of many fires durah during 9 last year chused caused 6 by y spontaneous this combined with unknown causes results in approximately loss each year to the farmers farmer of the united states and accounts account for lore ane or of all the annual farm joes of in the national fire loss to the nation 1 spontaneous combustion ranks fourth in the causes of fire and Is exceeded oril only aby by losses resulting from lightning defective flues and heating beating apparatus end and matches end and smoking |