Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1876 — Hang Up Your Barn Lamp. [ARTICLE]

Hang Up Your Barn Lamp.

Don’t ever stand your barn lamp on foe floor or any other place where it will be liable to get turned over while the wick is lighted. Whenever we enter foe barn with a lighted lamp it is hung on a strong nail at one end of the feeding room, so that foe light will shine to the further end. When the lamp is hanging at that point one can see to cut fodder with foe hay-cutter, pump water for the live stock, mix feed, fill the racks or anything else that is to be done in the feeding apartment without any danger of turning foe lamp over. The barn lamp is never set down. When we go into the stable to milk the cow, to litter the floor, to groom the animals, the first thing is to hang foe lamp on a nail which has been driven into some post or joist or beam on purpose for the lamp. No other article is ever hung on the nails where the lamp is to be hung. If it is necessary to go on the mow to pitch down hay or other fodder the lamp is always secured on an appropriate nail before a forkful of hay is lifted. By such an orderly arrangement ore can always rely on foe light which the lamp will shed around him, and he will always feel assured that the building will not lie set on fire. Many a large barn has been burned to ashes simply because the lamp was not hung up on a nail where it could not be turned over. We have seen farmers move about in their barns with a lighted candle in one hand, which was set down here and there at places where it was liable to be turned over and to set hay on Are. One cannot be too careful when carrying a lighted candle or lamp where there are shavings, hay, straw, or other dry, combustible material. If a lamp must be taken into the stable or barn let large nails be driven into the timber so that heedless employes can have no excuse for setting a barn-lamp down.— N. Y. Herald.