FIRE FIRE FIRE
When fire brealcs out lashec? in fury
by a forty-mile ^aie, tne rasing
flames rapidly spread beyond dhe
control of unorganized mar. power,
responding to a desnerate call for
help.
Fire hazards should be carefully
considered, ’./here homes ere remod
eled be sure thet the stove pipes
running through partitions are pro
‘ perly installed. Chimneys should
J be cleaned and carefully inspected
for craclcs, stove lines too close
to wooden walls and aloosely fitted
dtove pipe are some of thd hazards
to be avoided.
Fire control as well as prevention
should be conscientiously consider
ed before the desperate call for
help is necessary. With oroperly
equipped fire departments, avail
able apparatus to every home and
organized fire drills; communities
will receive ana nay demand recog
nition by insurance companies.
Every hone should have some means
of power water-wupply, adopt stand
ard hose couplings, and in comuun
ities where each fa .ily is unable
to have their own power a local fire
department could be organized.
If e\.ery half dozen families were
equipped to quickly attach hose and
a portable engine many disasterous
fires could be prevented. Not only
are we safe garding our lives and
property but are placing ourselves
in a position to aenand lower rates
instead of higher.
Then too,* the future natter of in
surance rests directly with the Col
onists. Undoubtly there "dll be. a
very rigid inspection of buildings
in the near future, directly due to
the number of fires that have de
stroyed property.
And if the inspector finds fire
hazards which can and should be e
vouded, then our insurance rates
will surely be raised. Group in
surance affects everybody.
(Cent. f~on pa^'e 6)
which have t> j*.*n washed show
heuvy deterioration losses in
storage. It is obvious that
dirty eggs snculd not oe offered
the consumer, for this discoura
ges the consumption of this nut
ritious proauct.
The Missouri Agricultural Exper
iment Station in its attempt to
solve this problem has recently
discovered that dirty eggs as
taken from the packing oi&nd and
washed in a solution of g to 1
per cent concentrated lve--97 per
oont sodium hydroxide—kept as
well In cold storage as did nat
urally clean eggs of similar
quality, ’./hen sold they command
ed a price equal to that receiv
ed for the naturally clean, un
washed eg-gs. Furthermore, ex
perienced dealers in eggs could
not detect, the eggs which had
beec washed; and cooking tests
Sfter eight and ten months stor
age showed -that the dirty eggs
which had been washed in lye
water were of equal quality to
tne clean e0l_s stored at the
sane tine.
Because of the caustic proper
ties of the lye solution, rubber
gloves should be usedfvhen wash
ing the eggs, but the fact that
soiled eg^s can be treated in
such a ay as to reduce to a
rtinimem losses due to their bo
coning dirty suggests a possible
solution to this vexing problem
of how to handle the dirty eggs.