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By C. M. SEAGRAVES 



LAST YEAR DURING FEBRU- 

 iry, 71 Illinois farmers or members of 

 their families were injured, temporarily 

 or permanently, in farm accidents .... 

 rive were killed. The causes .... 

 horses, axes, infection, bulls, cows, trac- 

 tors, butchering, falling trees. 



WE RURAL DRIVERS, JUST LIKE 

 city folks, have our faults, one of the 

 biggest is that we don't use arm signals 

 to tell following motorists what we 

 intend to do. Traffic speed being what 

 It is, all drivers, and especially country 

 drivers, should give plain arm signals 

 at least 100 feet down the road from 

 the place that they intend to turn off. 

 We should remember that the driver 

 behind us is expecting that we will go 

 straight ahead at the same speed we 

 have been travelling until we warn him 

 to the contrary. 



LETS PROTECT OURSELVES 



and other motorists by sticking our arms 

 way out in plenty of time before we turn 

 or stop, so that the other fellow will 

 have ample time to change his speed 

 Stop lights, even when working, don't 

 show up very well during daylight 

 hours, and besides, the law says that 

 we sould use arm signals before turn 

 :ng or stopping. 



SOME DRIVERS HAVE A WAY 



of straddling the middle line when 

 'iriving in rural communities. There 

 .irgument is that if something happens, 

 fhey have more distance in which to 

 work out the solution than they would 



have if they were on their own side 

 of the road. 



Now there wouldn't be so many 

 things happening in the first place if 

 folks stayed on their own side of the 

 road. For instance, if a driver once 

 gets in the habit of taking the center 

 of the pavement, he occasionally neg- 

 lects to notice when he is topping a 

 hill. Few things are more embarras- 

 sing than to go over the brow of a 

 knoll and meet another motorist who 

 similarly keeps to the middle of the 

 road. Outside of saying "How're ya" 

 just before the crash, there is little 

 that can be done unless speeds are 

 very moderate. 



Passengers who do not care to wear 

 windshield-frames for a lavaliere, are 

 also uneasy when they find themselves 

 at the mercy of a "black-line " driver. 

 There are just two sides of a road. . . . 

 the right and the wrong. A motorist, 

 like a white collar, either is or htvain't. 

 There's no such thing as .ilinin! oii\tht; 

 right side 



PROBABLY NO GROUP OF 



people arc exposed to such a variety 

 of occupational accident hazards as are 

 farmers. An endless array of mechani- 

 cal equipment, livestock, adverse work 

 ing conditions, long hours, exposure 

 to weather, and a widely assorted list 

 of tasks all make for accidents. It's 

 a wise farmer indeed who carefully 

 surveys each job before starting it and 

 selects the uje way to perform it. 

 Let's make farming one of the safeU 



as well as one of the healthiest of oc- 

 cupations. 



WHAT DOES YOUR YOUNG 

 ster know about driving? Have you 

 Sfx-nt as much as a 40-hour-week io 

 showing him how to careiully drive a 

 car.' If he knew as much about your 

 business as he knows about operating 

 a car woud you turn the business over 

 to him to manage? 



Are you qualified to Uach him or 

 do you have accidents yourself? Who 

 is really to blame if your son or daught- 

 er does have a smash-up that more care- 

 ful training might have prevented? 



^'oungsters are expected to do few 

 things as dangerous as driving, with 

 so little training. It's all important 

 that they ii.ini to drive inrrectly Wh«t 

 about yours? 



Uncle Henry 



ii^^__y^EY there. Uncle Henry. 

 ^^y /- come here and have a 

 ^ / / look at this tractor ... 



not used much .... give you a real 

 buy on her. " said Charlie, the imple- 

 ment man. 



A real buy, eh?' responded Uncle 

 Henry, casting a quick eye at the 

 machine. You 

 mean this thing 

 with tha opef« 

 spokes, no fend- 

 ers, an' the 

 stove-lid seat? 

 ^' o u know, 

 Charlie, that 

 there seat looks 

 like the one I 

 had on my first 

 Uncle Henry ridin' plow }0 



years ago. 



Course. I don't make traetors. I 

 jest use 'em, " continued Uncle Henry, 

 but III be danged if I c'n see why 

 we're supposed t' buy tha same ole 

 equipment years runnin'. Don't reckeo 

 I'd buy a new car with an ole buggy 



sc.it on It Still mebbe I would 



though That's one trouble with us 

 farmers ... if a tool does its work, 

 we- buy it. an we don't ask fer more. 

 Guess its tha new paint gits us." 



"Never heard you talk so much before. 

 Uncle Henry. What s the matter?" 

 interrupted Charlie. 



■ VC'cII." continued the old gentle- 

 man "You see. I got a radio, an' I 

 read a bit. It beats all how much com- 

 motion folks are makin' 'bout safety 

 on the highways. Good thing, too. 

 Should of had it sooner. But its time 

 us farmers did something about s.ifety 

 on the farm. Hear 'bout Bill Trum- 

 ( Continued "n pite ??> 



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