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15,000 Lose Lives Yearly'
Caused By Farm Accidents
Farm accidents take lives of 15,000 rural people each year and cause disabling injuries to over a million more: ■ ■ - - — ,-.. . MM
Most of these accidents result from - doing simple things the wrong way, and from sheer neglect, H. S. Barksdale, chairman oF~the Rappahannock P.M.A. County Committee said.
Mr. Barksdale urged farmers of tlie county to make National Farm Safety Week, July 20-26, the occasion of checking up on accident hazards that exist on nearly all farms. v
“Rotten steps, broken ladders, rusty nails, and improperly stored gasoline are ‘booby traps’-ready to take your life or limb just as quickly as any you would find in Korea/’ he said, “failure to light a dark stairway, smoking in a hayloft, or pulling out on the highway without looking, is jnst plain foolhardy. But each year thousands of people keep on doing these things, and suffer the results.” “There’s hardly a city or a county that I know of, which is not crying
Medical men calim that we are taller in the morning than in the evening. We’ve noticed, too, that we’ve shorter around the end of the month._ after cutting. “
Hycienths, 10 drops alcohol, 1 pt. water.
Contact Mrs. Lewis Turner or Mrs. George Davis for-first handinformation or how these solutions work. .
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