Show CAUTION NEWS WATCH it FARMER this keai year something like land army recruits will goto go to the country to help with the most moat important crops our farms have ever grown city slickers stenographers tile file clerks students school teachers and housewives will don blue denims to put more foud food in pur our national bins off to sunshine fields of waving wheat hermora haymows and lowing kine which it turns out ars are juet juat about twice as aa hazardous i aldous as working in a nice nce little T TNT NT plant with the I 1 five subway rush thrown in true hoeing threshing and milking put a sparkle in the eye that is if they dont donit close it permanently for when it comes to downright menace farmyard chores it seems are in the danger bracket next to soldiering of all industries the national safety council reports agriculture is the no 1 manslayer maa slayer some tanners farmers and farm helpers lose their lives every year through accidental causes more than are injured of them so grievously they are never able to work again A farmers life is just a continual round of barbed wire missing ladder rungs balky gasoline engines some somersaulting saul ting tractors broken harness and bulls as gentle as a demolition bomb add the human factor carelessness and in the time it takes to read this piece you have fifty more people cut or trampled or crushed somewhere in it farms these accidents remember are liap happening pening to experienced farmers versed in farm lore and farm ways what then is going to happen to all the simple and trusting city folk once loose among these pastoral hazards caution caution and more caution is the solution the national safety council says their safety engineers working on a special grant from the war production fund to conserve manpower have studied the appallingly repetitious causes back of farm acci accidents thoy they insist accident losses can be pinched down and every farm producer kept sound if only conspicuous use is madi made of that cheap and ana soverign commodity called caution here are the things ili to watch especially machinery tractors kick buck and roll over keep your thumb on the same side of the handle as your fingers I 1 when youre cranking it or a broken hand will remind you of the wallop in a tractors kick neglect to fill its tires with liquid and it can bounce you out onto the loam ma haibe maibe abe under its own ft heels wheels maybe under the two ton load its hauling hitch too heavy a load to rt it and it will rear up on its ti ednd nd wheels cross a hill field or turn at more than four and one half per and it may roll like a may colt in other words tractors are vicious compared to the ordinary domesticated family car with tractor history there in front efthem of them safety engineers warn never stand up in one never carry 9 a passenger to prevent accidental starting while I 1 oiling be sure you know which wires to disconnect and disconnect them dont fool with belts while pulleys are in motion keep out of the space between tac torand trailer deware beware of gushing steam when removing radiator cap new steel cored radiators substituting during copper shortages have pressure cooling systems meaning theres steam even when the tractor overheated dont show off corn pickers mowers harrows and threshing machines have the same black history with their moving treads cogs fans and belts merely losing your balance around them can be final 1 it was tor for farm helpers last year look out for ferdinand Liv stock A bull Is just about as peaceable as a loaded gun it if you must enter the bull pen know how you can get out in a split second never lead fm in without a staff through his nose ring so bossy even I 1 it f her name is 19 alice is the proper conversational gambit when youre entering a cows stall you have to milk her from the right side if you want anything besides a hool in the bucket eyen so watch her feet shell be stomping a lot if the flies are vad ead spraying helps this stay away from rams and board they have very little brother of man I 1 feeling there are a lot of things 0 remember about horses highly temper temperamental a and easily frightened so they are even touchier than cows about a gentle howdy from you to warn them youre entering their stalls which don t forget is always on the horses lett left side four other important nevers are never approach directly from the rear never bump them never leave an unhitched team standing alone fasten the lines so thoy dont fall under the horses never tie lines about your body cr wrists barns and silos farm fires cost coat S about vout every year not counting the people burned to death in these fires so never carry goow matches in your pockets when you tc AT working around in a barn bam never strike matches there hang lanterns on pegs where they cant be knocked over an never never smoke in a barn dont clown around in hay its deceitfully slipper iny once its in the loft you can break more than a leg falling out of the haymow never carry A going up ir P a pitchfork in you down ladders hoist thin up by ropes and when not in use stand them tines up against the wall be careful about ladders watch for broken rungs make sure the ladder is secure top and bottom and that the base is ia less than one fourth the ladders height away from the wall halll depend more on your hands than on your feet and hold onto sides not rungs |