Show keep buildings tight urges farmers grain spoils stock sicken in leaky barn farmers have done a better job of maintaining farm machinery than farm buildings in fact in only four years since 1921 have investments in farm buildings equalled equal led depreciation eventually farmers find that buildings are essential tools just as essential as thrashers thra reap ers or plows but too often farmers realize this only after a building has developed the shakes or after a weather beaten roof allows moisture to get through it where it can attack the building and the cattle hogs feed or machines stored there of what use is it to raise an extra hundred bushels of grain the war food administration points out if that grain is to be lost in a granary with a leaking roof of what use is it to expand poultry flocks if as much as 30 per cent may be lost because of damp structures why attempt to raise more livestock unless steps are first taken to save the 30 to 40 per cent which never reach maturity because of poor or inadequate shelter like home owners farmers are apt to forget that roofs can never relax in the battle with wind rain ice and snow while some roofing materials cannot be obtained non critical fire resistant asphalt roofing which is easy to apply is available |