—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 4,1978
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Although the upper areas of the York County
landmark barn at Avalong Farms, were totally
Fire destroys barn
By JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
YORK - A York County
landmark was destroyed
Saturday evening when fire
swept through the main barn
at Avalong Farms, a well
known dairy operation and
restaurant just east of York
on Whiteford Road.
Avalong employees had
nearly finished the evening
milking when the flames
were first spotted about 6:30
p.m. in the upper bam
storage area. About 120
firemen and 18 pieces of
equipment rep> .-senting a
half-dozen fire-fighting
operations responded, tying
up traffic on nearby Route 30
for several hours.
Herds of Guernseys and
Holstems, totaling 72 head,
were safely evacuated from
the pipeline stall bam,
located under the burning
frame structure’. Although a
shortage of available water
Holstein association’s
Rumler to speak at
Lancaster dinner
LANCASTER - The
annual Agriculture Banquet,
sponsored by the Lancaster
Association of Commerce
and Industry, will be held
Thursday, Nov. 9, at the
Good’n Plenty Restaurant,
Smoketown. Robert Rumler,
executive chairman of the
Holstem-Fnesian Associat
ion of America, will be the
featured dinner speaker
The time for the dinner is 7
p.m.
Tickets costs $7 and are
available from Atlantic
Breeders and the
Cooperative Extension
Service
Homier will talk about the
critical role which U S
agriculture plays in in
ternational trade, and the
key position of American
farmers in the international
supplies hampered the fire
fighting efforts, firemen
were able to save the
already-smoking roof of an
adjacent smaller stall bam
and two large cement stave
silos.
A milk bottling plant at
tached to the bam was
severely damaged, although
a farm spokesman thought
that some of the processing
equipment might be
salvaged. Several pieces of
machinery, including a
manure spreader, skid-steer
loader and post drilling and
setting equipment were
destroyed. Eight tons of
dairy feed, delivered just
hours before the flames
broke out, also went up in
smoke.
Herdsman Larry Am
spacher praised the help of
county dairymen who turned
out at dawn Sunday to help
move the ousted cattle into
marketplace. He’ll be
pointing out the supportive
role which farm products
and agricultural com
modities play in the balance
of payments, which in turn
greatly affects the value of
the American dollar
Another highlight of the
annual banquet will be the
presentation of Century
Farm Certificates to Lan
caster County farmers who
have applied for the
distinctive honor. The
certificates are given to
those whose farms have
been in their families for 100
or more consecutive years.
The Good’n Plenty
Restaurant in Smoketown is
located on Route 8%, just
south of the light at the in
tersection of Routes 8% and
340
consumed, firemen saved the adjoining silos
at Avalong Farms
temporary milking facilities
in the smaller barn. He
added that by 9 a.m. elec
trical service had been
restored to the unbumed
structure and daily milking
was underway.
Amspacher also had warm
words for feed suppliers
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York null late Saturday
night to mix and deliver two
tons of feed before midnight.
Clyde Long, one of the
owners of the family-held
corporation, maintained
hope that dairy processing
could be back underway in
just a matter of days.
Winter survival guide offered
HARRISBURG - A new
United States Department of
Energy (DOE) publication
entitled “Winter Survival, A
Consumers Guide to Winter
Preparedness” is available
free for the asking from the
Governor’s Energy Council
Toll-Free Conservation
Hotline.
The 18-page guide offers
helpful hints to, “help you
prepare for winter and help
you handle most
emergencies that even the
worst weather can bring,”
according to the authors.
“Winter can be an en
joyable and beautiful season
of the year, but we must be
aware of its hazards. Having
a comfortable and safe
winter is a matter of ad
vance planning,” the booklet
concludes.
The Department of
Energy publication was
prepared in cooperation with
the Administration on Aging
of the United States
Department of Health,
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