tangled mass of blackened trunks. Fire protection over the 

 first two plots was shown by means of a miniature lookout 

 tower and telephone lines to ranger cabins. 



Furs loaned 1 to the service were artistically arranged in one 

 corner, pelts of animals caught in Minnesota being shown. 



A miniature lake with a tinkling waterfall caused many 

 mothers and children to exclaim with delight. Wood products 

 showing the uses of three of Minnesota's woods, namely, black 

 ash, big-toothed aspen and birch, were in the next exhibit. 



The value of windbreaks around the farm home was shown 

 by two miniature plats, one with and the other without a wind- 

 break. A contrast was drawn between the comfort of the oc- 

 cupants of the house and stables in the former, and the misery 

 and discomfort suffered by the latter. 



The last but not least feature of the entire show was the 

 railroad fire prevention exhibit. With the co-operation of sev- 

 eral local lines, an ash pan (full size) was obtained, showing 

 the method in use on locomotives for carrying live coals to a 

 safe dumping ground. Another road loaned a model front end 

 of an engine, showing the flues and screens for prevention of 

 fire along rights-of-way. 



Of course, as would be expected, observers' ideas differed 

 widely. Some were for condemning, some spoke approvingly, 

 some carelessly, and many, the thinking ones, spoke not at all. 

 Women were the most intelligent and very readily saw through 

 the lesson being brought out, showing that the feminine rep- 

 resentatives of Minnesota's farms are the readers. They were 

 heard hundreds of times explaining the different exhibits to 

 their husbands and children, and in most cases these explana- 

 tions were correct. Some had wild and erroneous ideas on 

 forestry one woman remarking that she could not understand 

 how a pine tree would only grow some six or seven inches 

 high in forty years, as the placard in the slash disposal ex- 

 hibit indicated. The rank and file of the public were with the 

 service and its work, however, and nodded its head approv- 

 ingly. This should encourage the forestry contingent in Min- 

 nesota. 



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