Fire-protective construction on the farm. Page: Front Inside
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HE ESTIMATEI) annual loss from fires on farms in
recent years has beent as high as approximately $100,000,000
worth of property and 3,500 lives. This is a
direct challenge to everyone concerned with conservation
of national wealth alnd resources.
The United States department of Agriculture, in an
effort to reduce this extensive loss, is studying the causes
of farm fires and devising ways and means of control and
prevention. In this work the Department is actively
cooperating with a number of organizations and associations
interested in fire prevention.
One of the most valuable contacts is that with the
National Fire Protection Association, with executive offices
at 60 Batterymarch Street, Boston, Mass. This association,
which is the internationally recognized body for
setting up standards and making regulations pertaining
to the prevention, control, and extinguishment of fire,
officially approved the publication of this bulletin at its
1937 annual meeting.
David J. Price, as chairman, and Harry E. Roethe, as
secretary, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils; Wallace Ashby,
Bureau of Agricultural Engineering; and William H.
Rowe, Bureau of Agricultural Economies, are representatives
of this Department on the farm fire protection committee
of the National Fire Protection Association, which
assisted in carrying on investigations and in supplying
valuable data for this bulletin. The present text incorporates
revisions recommended by the committee in 1936,
and approved by the association in 1937.
The other members of the committee on farm fire
protection are:
Herbert C. Angster, National Association Domestic and Farm
Pumping Equipment and Allied Products Manufacturers; Thomas
Baird, Association of Canadian Fire Marshals; A. O. Boniface, Cheinical
Fire Extinguisher Association; S. O. Cook, Motor Fire Apparatus
Manufacturers' Association, Inc.; Harry P. Cooper, National Association
of Mutual Insurance Companies; Horace M. Davis, Fire Marshals'
Section; L. P. Keiph, National Lumber Manufacturers' Association;
Henry Giese, American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Clarence
Goldsmith, National Board of Fire Underwriters; I. D. Goss, The
Farm Underwriters' Association; S. H. Ingberg, National Bureau of
Standards; S. D. Kretzer, Lightning Rod Manufacturers' Association;
V. H. Tousley, National Fire Protection Association; V. N. Valgren,
Farm Credit Administration; C. R. Welborn, Underwriters' Laboratories.This bulletin is based on a report prepared by the late
M. C. Betts, Bureau of Agricultural Engineering, as former
chairman of the subcommittee on construction and location
of farm buildings.
Issued April 1929
Washington, D. C. Revised February 1938
Slightly revised April 1939
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United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. Fire-protective construction on the farm., book, April 1939; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3424/m1/2/?q=farm: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.