Shortly before the establishment of REA in May, 1935, only 48,048, or 18.8 per cent, of the farms in Ohio were receiving central station electric service. Today, 198,512 Ohio farms, or 90 per cent of the number in the State, receive electric service.
Protect Forests from Fire.--Efforts to prevent fire damage to forest lands probably can never be perfect but the record shows they do greatly reduce the number of fires and hold down the destruction.
Last year's record clearly points out this fact, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The figures were compiled by the Forest Service. These show that 543,329,000 acres are now under organized forest fire protection. Unprotected acreage is listed at 111,026,000 acres, about 1 acre out of every 6.
This one-sixth of the acreage had 60 per cent or 3 out of 5 of all the fires on forest land (120,429 out of 200,799). More than seven times as many unprotected acres were burned over, and the damage on the unprotected acres was much larger than it was on the five times as many acres that were under organized protection.
The report emphasizes that 90 per cent of our forest fires are man-caused and therefore preventable.
Radio Signals Sent from Rocket at 72-Mile Height