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SPRING CLEANUP AND FIPII A CCIDENT PREW NTION 



In the spring, it is tire to ^±ve a helping hand to nature in cleaning 

 up around the farm and in tho farm home. This vdll give the farm a new 

 look, and make it a safer a'^.d easier place for working and living© I^ 

 cleaning up-inside and out— —we can go a long way toirard eliminating fire 

 and accident hazards. 



Let's use this spring, a safety rule: "A place for everything, and 

 everything in its place". Disorder, frhich is a common disease, is 

 responsible for putting one out of every five victims of accidents in the 

 hospital. 



Get rid of all those accumulated papers, rags and rubbish that are 

 always abounding in the home, from the basement to the attic. Do a very 

 thorough clean-up job. Label medicines, poisons and insecticides clearly, 

 and keep them out of the reach of children. 



Let's go out in the baml No doubt it is cluttered up with an 

 accumulation of items 7>rhich have been allovred to collect in work areas. 

 Clean them outi If they are no good, get rid of them. If they're any good, 

 find a suitable place to store them. 



Check the ladders and stairways. Keep them in good repair. Storing 

 loose material overhead on rafters or betvreen joists may cause a bad 

 accident. Keep forks, brooms, rakes and other barn equipment in a rack or 

 suitable place where they will not injure people. 



Outside on tlie farm, you will probably see old wire, cans, pieces of 

 board and other debris that have been accumulating over a year or two. 

 Pick up all this stuff, Ifeul it to the dump or dispose of it in some other 

 way. There is no sense in providing a home for the rats. 



Now let's go out to the workshop. Put all the tools in place. Pick 

 up all the loose material such as \r±re and cans. Sweep out the corners. 

 Clean it up. You'd be surprised how much easier it is to work in a good, 

 cleaned up vrorkshop than a messy one. 



Although a spring cleanup is in order, this cleanup should be followed 

 at all times. As a result, you'll have a better looking and more valuable 

 set of buildings, and at the same time, put a little paint on some of these 

 buildings and make the old ones look neat and clean, 



R, B« Parmenter 



CHEI.ZCAL THIM^NG CIRCULAR AVAILABLE 



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Special Circular No, I89 (Revised March 19Sh) , entitled, "Chemical 

 Thinning of Apples and Peaches," is available to anyone wishing a copy. 

 This circular which we have been revising annually has been completely 

 revamped and all our suggestions are on a single sheet, We believe it is 

 an improvement over what we've put out on this subject in the past - hope 

 you think so too« 



Address any requests to either the Department of Pomology or the Mailing 



Room, University of Massachuset ts, Aniierst, Mass, 



i^uDiication approvea oy ueorge J , Uronin, titate Purchasing Agent #iy 



