HOPSON.
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Caution to FarmerS.-On second day morning
the Goth inst our neighborhood was alarmed by a
report that the new barn Of VIM. Painter was on
hre--in a very short time number of persons COL
lected and discovered smoke issuing from NOV
exclusively filled with hay, part oi which had been
taken in while in damp state Immediately they
commenced cutting round the funuel or chimney
from which the steam slowly escaped, and after
having with extreme labor descended about sixteen
feet, through an almost sufucaling smoke and smell
they arrived on a small bed Of fire which continued
to expand in size until they reached within one foot
OF the floor, on which the hay rested, when it ap
peared nearly feet in diameter. BY the appca
ton OF water as fast as the hay was removed they
were enabled to keep it down, and thus succeeded
in saving the barn.


The loss OF hay consumed is thought to be seye-
raj tons, and il is more than probable that if il had
not been so opporunely discovered, very shor,
time would have blown it into blaze, as it had then
worked down so low as to get air from the bottom
and was fast making itself vent through the body
OF the hay.


Concord, Penn, 9th mo. goth, 1895"
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