Every person, firm, corporation, copartnership, district, or association of persons
whatsoever being in possession of, occupying, owning in whole or in part or having
interest in or control of any land within the county outside of an incorporated city
or town, upon which there has been sown, or is standing, growing or grown any wheat,
oats, barley, hay or vegetation of any kind whatsoever, which, when so sown, standing,
growing, grown or being upon said land in any way, has become inflammable, easily
ignited or easily burned, shall at all times during the season when the same, or any
part thereof is inflammable, easily ignited or easily burned, maintain around the
outer boundary or boundaries of said lands, where the same are adjacent to any farming
lands having inflammable, easily ignited or easily burned vegetation thereon, or where
the said lands are adjacent to any highway through or along farming lands upon which
said lands there is any wheat, oats, barley, hay or vegetation of any kind that, or
any part of which, has become inflammable, easily ignited or easily burned; an effective
fire protection, or fire break of at least three feet in width, when said fire protection
or fire break is made by plowing, and at least six feet in width, when said fire protection
or fire break is otherwise made. Provided, however, that when said lands are adjacent
to a highway, the fire protection or fire break may be made by the removal of all
inflammable, easily ignited or easily burned grain, hay, vegetation, matter or substance
along or upon the half of the highway next adjacent to said lands.
