Necessity inspires invention

Everybody has a hobby and I have decided that I like to make tools. I made this discovery about myself a few years ago when I was taking out some windowpanes from our barn and putting screens in their place, and I was having a very hard time taking out the window points. I kept


Safety audits find barns loaded with hazards

Insurance-industry audits of barns are turning up some horrifying hazards. Randy Drysdale of the Farm Mutual Reinsurance Plan Inc. at Cambridge, Ont., checks barns and showed some of the unbelievable things he has seen to an audience of about 90 attending the annual swine seminar here recently. One picture was a crowd of electrocuted rats