Modem dairy bam
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This is the newly built dairy barn at the John L. Landis farm which was open to inspection last weekend
John L. Landis farm
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temperature
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4,1978
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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.
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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
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