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Show Study Farm Fire Hazards In connection with the observance observ-ance cf National Fire Prevention week last week, Secretary of Agriculture, Agri-culture, Henry A. Wallace pointed out that the appalling loss of life and the high monetary loss reflect the need of better rural fire protection. pro-tection. While the trend has been downward, down-ward, the Secretary said, each year about 3,500 people lose their lives in farm fires and the prcperty loss is estimated at about $100,000,000 annually. an-nually. In facing the problem farm people should recognize that because of inadequate fire fighting apparatus appa-ratus it is essential that fire hazards be studied and methods cf fire prevention adopted. |