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«me Mr. and Mrs. Joseph French and family who contributed the panel, "What Our Family Did To Promote Farm with a tractor to put the exhaust into a pail of rater. “And Dad has told us that extra passengers .hould never be allowed on the tractor and that .mall children should never be allowed around machinery.” Bob continued the list of precautions against tccidents. He said: "Last summer as we were cabling the threshing machine into the barn, I had been blocking the nachine directly in line with the pulley. Before .he wheels of the thresher reached the doors. "lad told me to change sides and block on the -ther side of the machine away from the line if the pulley. Just as I had changed sides and he wheels reached the door, the pulley snapped <rtd it flew by where I had been blocking the machine. Although this was a new pulley, it shows hat no chances should be taken with new or old quipment. “We also have been told how dangerous the table can be if care is not taken to prevent it. chen we go in beside or around animals we ‘hould always speak to them as we approach. tecause if animals are surprised they can kick refore you know it. On our farm we never leave orks lying around where they may he stepped -vn. Passages in the stable are kept Clean and W to prevent falls. Dad has warned us many imes that straw and hay chutes should never be .overed with straw or hay, but they should be 'overed with solid doors to prevent falling through, “We have also been warned that anyone lead- ing an animal should never wrap the rope around IlS hand. If the animal runs the rope could .;;isily tighten around the hand. When leading an :nimal we never use a longer rope than is neces- “dl'l’ because if you are holding too much rope \‘ou can easily get caught in it.” Doroth. the second daughter, in Grade XIII ‘“ high school told what the Junior Farmers' fife driving rodeo had done for safety in me- raring. SUMMER 1960 Safety," A! the head ol the table is Mr. William Anderson, who chaired the panel. The Police Department and the Department of Transport assisted with this project. First a dri~ ver‘s hand book was sent to each Junior Farmer member in the county. to be studied in prepara- tion for a quiz. Five brand new cars were loaned for the final demonstrations and an insurance company. feeling that this was ‘tl good way to promote safe driving. insured the curs without cost to the Junior Farntcrs' Association. The rodeo tests were: answering two written quilcs based on the safe driving rules in the hand book. parallel parking. smooth stopping on :t certain line. straight line driving, forward and backward and serpent drivingâ€"the last test rc- quiring driving forward and backward around four barrels. Dorothy said: “These tests may sound easy but Illl guarantee you they weren‘t. Policemen were at each section of the test watching the driving and filling out our score sheets. By the end. most of our scores weren't too high. The top five boys and the top five girls were required to compete again in the sztme tests at the Stratford full fair. "I think most of us had taken for granted that we Could parallel park, stop on :1 line and drive straight. but when the distance we were ottt from being correct was mcasurcd we realized that we weren‘t very accurate in our driving. Other rules such as always looking behind before starting or stopping a car were stressed. I gained a terrific amount from this project and I would urge all of you to encourage other organizations to havc it safe driving rodeo," Last summer Mr. and Mrs. French had taken :1 six weeks" holiday leaving the family in charge of things at home. The chairman usde if they had been worried about leaving the children with this responsibility, and Mrs. French said that they realized the boys were young â€"~ the girls being older hild already curried considerable reâ€" sponsibilily when it was necessary. “But,” she added, “if you don't show your children that you have confidence in them they may never learn to take responsibility. No, We Weren‘t worried." 21