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Show USDA Agencies Ask Observance Of Farm Safety Recognizing that accident prevention pre-vention is a farm and ranch production pro-duction problem, the supervisors of the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation Conser-vation District are joining other agricultural groups in observance obser-vance of National Farm Safety Week, July 20 to 26, according to Lyle L. Young. The Department of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, acting on President Truman's Tru-man's Farm Safety Week proclamation, procla-mation, is making an effort to reverse agriculture's record of the highest accident- fatality rate of any occupation. Cooperating in this drive toward safer living and working on the farm and ranch are the Soil Conservation Service, Extension Service and all other USDA agencies and the farm groups with which they cooperate, co-operate, i Needless deaths and injuries obstruct the high efficiency and production expected of American Ameri-can farmers, Mr. Young said, citing National -Safety Council statistics to show that during the hour you take off for dinner each day, two farm residents will be accidentally killed and 205 injured, in-jured, on the average. One out of every 10 farmers will suffer a disabling injury in 1947 unless un-less extra precautions are taken the record reveals, while four farm buildings are destroyed cy fire every hour. "Concerned as we are with conservation of soil and Water and better land use, we must not forget safety is a prime essential essen-tial in the success of any program," pro-gram," Mr. Young stated. , |