Modem dairy bam THE SENTINEL. This is the newly built dairy barn at the John L. Landis farm which was open to inspection last weekend John L. Landis farm Round-the-clock guardian of stored milk temperature If you depend upon your milk check for a living, protect that income by insuring milk quality. The least expensive, single-payment insurance obtainable is the Sentinel the heavy-duty, 10-inch recorder which charts round-the-clock temperature of your milk-cooling or holding tank. Assure yourself and your processor that proper milk temperature is always maintained. Keep a permanent log of compressor operation and tank cooling or pre-cooling efficiency, from first filling to pickup. Cleaning temperatures increasingly ques tioned by sanitarians —are recorded on the same chart At little added cost, the Sentinel is available with provision for actuating an alarm or warning fight if milk holding temperature rises above pre-set level Remember—if it prevents the loss of only one tank of milk, the Sentinel has paid its own way. CD PARTLOW See your dealer about the Sentinel — or drop us a line RO. Box 433 Elizabethtown, PA 17022 rises from V&v-' ~. *» Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4,1978 -A 5 ' - 1 /■ ♦ SL - > ashes By JOANNE SPAHR EAST PETERSBURG - As the black smoke smouldered from the ashes and charred ruins of what had been a complete set of farm buildings, John L. Landis looked through the haze that morning to see reality staring him straight in the face. “Well,” he sighed, drawing in the cold smoke filled air that stung his nostrils, “We’re going to have to start all over again.” Altltough the night’s destruction had warped time into what seemed an eter nity, it wasn’t more than a few hours before that he and his wife Doris had been awakened by the honking of horns and banging on the door. Sensing the problem, Landis had sat up straight m bed to see flames shooting out from his tobacco shed windows about 10 feet. <>x*. Without even thinking twice he grabbed for the phone. It was dead. Taking advantage of neighbors and friends that had begun to arrive, Landis got someone to drive to his brother’s house and make a call from there. Five minutes late the fire chief arrived. At first the Landis’s ex pected only the tobacco shed to go up, which, by this time, was completely engulfed in flames. “But, what we didn’t know was that it'hadn’t reached the peak of its heat,” says Landis. “I looked at the bam (situated right beside the tobacco shed), and thought to myself, ‘Oh, the fire company will be here in five minutes and they will save it.’” Nevertheless, he made a snap decision to let the tied cows out. Running barefoot across the icy tarred driveway on that Wintery cold March night, Landis went down the line and untied each cow. “They did pretty good,” he remembers. “They all went into the barnyard without any problems.” To his dismay, however, he had forgotten to open the gate to let them out of the (Turn to Page 133) DON'T NEGLECT YOUR EYES Visit Your Eye Doctor if you are in doubt Doctor’s Prescriptions Filled Adjustments, Repairs DAVID'S OPTICAL CO. Always See Better 403 N. Duke Street Phone 394-2767 131
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