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Show 4-H Club Safety Program One Of Nation's Finest National Farm Safety Week is being observed throughout rural America, July 23-29. But there is another nation - wide safety activity in .progress. It is the 4-H Farm and Home Safety program, carried on by nearly half a million 4-H Club members between the ages of 10 and 21. These youths who conduct safety surveys of their home farms and neighboring farmsteads have one of the best organized safety programs in the rural field. They not only ferret ' out hazards, but follow through and correct thousands of unsafe conditions relating to farm machinery, livestock homemaking, recreation, motoring, motor-ing, and scores of other things. Since the project was launched launch-ed on a national basis eight years ago, enrollment has increased in-creased five times, indicating that farm boys and girls have steadily become more safety-minded. safety-minded. Many times the half-million young folks taking part in the 4-H safety program are Influenced Influ-enced and benefited. Perhaps this widespread flux of safety knowledge will prove to be a direct route to decreasing the 17,500 fatal accidents to farm people each year; or save some of the 35,000 farm buildings destroyed by fire; or put to constructive con-structive use the $1,000,000,000 in losses annually represented by these disasters. |