De-Lancaster Fanning Saturday, January 26,1991 Deere Honors Noll, Landis Bros. LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) — Herb Noll of Landis Bros., Inc. has won the prestigious Man ager’s Club Award for their 1990 sales and management efforts. Wayne L. Chesney, vice presi dent and general manager of John Deere Company, presented Herb Noll his award during a ceremony at Deere & Co. corporate head quarters in Moline, IL. The Manager’s Club Award recognizes the lop John Deere Herb Noll of Landis Bros., Inc. In Lancaster, right, receives the Manager’s Club Award from Wayne L. Ches ney, vice president and general manager of John Deere Company, Columbus, OH. Supaflu Lines, Relines Masonry Chimneys FAWN GROVE (York Co.)— Supaflu is a unique system for lin ing and relining masonry chim neys. The system is based on a concept which originated years ago in Europe. The lining is cast in place with in the existing chimney. There is no need to tear down the chimney. The method presently used is more effective and practical with the use of modem technical equip ment and materials. According to Bill Dunivant, Border Construction, Fawn Grove, the Supaflu installation procedure is as follows: • The chimney is inspected, prepared and cleaned using recog nized chimney sweep procedures and equipment. • All openings in the chimney such as clean-outs, thimbles, and fireplace openings arc closed off and weak areas in the chimney are braced. • An inflatable rubber former, called Supaformer. is lowered into the cleaned chimney flue. It is sized to the heating appliance(s) to be vented into the flue and to the available flue cavity. If the flue is tile lined, the tiles may have to be removed to maintain a proper size flue. ness News Agricultural dealers in the coun try. This award places Herb Noll in an exclusive group that only 20 John Deere dealers from 16 states in the northeast quadrant of the United States. “We are proud of the hard work and commitment of our entire dealership staff in achieving this recognition,” said Herb Noll. “We also share this award with all of our customers.” • The Supaformer is inflated to the proper flue si/c and centered within the flue cavity by using spacers. Centering is accom plished at offsets and bends, also. • The special Supaflu formula (just add water on site) is then pumped into the chimney (from the lop) between the outside of the Supaformer and the inside of the chimney. • When the Supaflu is set, usu ally the next day, the former is deflated and withdrawn. The clean-outs and thimbles arc re opened and braces removed. The heating appliance(s) are now ready to be reconnected. The newly installed Supaflu lin er extends from the base of the chimney flue to approximately three inches above the chimney cap. The whole liner is con structed from material suitable for high service temperatures. The liner is capable of resisting corro sion, softening, or cracking from the hot flue gases. Supaflu was introduced to North America in 1980. Supaflu is in compliance with major building codes currently in effect in the U.S. and Canada for lining chim neys servicing heating appliances. Soybean Farmers Pleased With Purchases ST. LOUIS. Mo.—The Ameri can Soybean Association says it is pleased with the Soviet Union’s purchase of 550,000 tonnes of U.S. soybean meal based on U.S. Department of Agriculture’s allo cation of $l3O million in GSM-102 short-term export cre dits for protein meal to the Soviet Union. While the allocation was slight ly lower than the trade expected, ASA President Buck McCann said getting the Soviets to use soy beans is a major step toward increasing soybean exports in the future. "‘We’re delighted to see soy bean meal included in the loan USDA Lifts LITITZ (Lancaster Co.) The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given a clean bill of health to the 320,000 chickens producing eggs on a Mount Joy farm former ly known as the Hgg Basket. Sales from the farm had been restricted since May, when it was discovered that eggs from the farm had been involved in an out break of salmonellosis in Tarry town, New York. Salmonellosis is a food-borne illness which causes flu-like symptoms. That Tarrytown out break involved catering trucks that served egg sandwiches that had been undercooked, then held for long periods of time at a tempera ture which allowed the rapid growth of Salmonella enteriditis (SE), the bacterial strain that caused the illness. After the outbreak, USDA offi cials traced the eggs back to the Egg Basket farm. They tested the environment and found it positive for SE. They also tested the organs of 1,400 chickens in the laying flock there and found one positive SE test.’ Stringent USD A regulations place restrictions on any flock where there is any indication at all of SE. Since those restrictions were placed on (he Mount Joy flock, all the eggs have been sold to a breaker, a company that breaks the eggs, then pasteurizes them before they me sold for use in cake mixes and other products. In November the Egg Basket was purchased by Sauder’s Eggs and renamed Penn Dutch Farms. I JU. t r~ mm * Sauder’s Eggs President Paul Sauder, left, and Vice President Glenn Sauder were recently notified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that all restrictions had been lifted from eggs produced at Sauder’s Penn Dutch Farms facility In Mourn Joy, Pa. allocations,” said McCann. “The Soviets desperately need protein rich soybean meal to increase the efficiency of their livestock pro duction operations. We have the ability to supply the protein they need. Export credits is all that was needed to make the transaction work.” McCann said ASA has been working with Soviet political leaders and livestock producers for the past four years to provide the advantages of soybean meal. “We’ve made a lot of progress in our marketing efforts,” said McCann. “We showed them how they could take six months off the time it takes to produce a market Restrictions Egg Farm After the purchase, the four laying houses on the farm were com pletely washed and disinfected, said Sauder’s Eggs president Paul Saudcr. “USDA lifted the restrictions because their tests showed there were no Salmonella enteriditis organisms either in the birds or in their environment,” Sauder said. “This cleanup was an important step for us and for the egg industry as a whole. I am still convinced, however, that improper food handling and preparation is the factor behind virtually every case of food-bomc illness,” he said. “We’ve solved the Salmonella problem in the laying houses that we own or that are owned by our independent producers. The eggs are wholesome when they leave our processing plant. We can’t control them after that point, but we have started an ambitious Sal monella education effort to sup port our food handlers.” Sauder’s Eggs processes and markets eggs from a total of 50 farms in Lancaster and Dauphin counties. Although Sauder’s owns the Penn Dutch Farm facility, most of the others are owned by independent farmers. On all the farms, Sauder said, rigid sanita tion procedures have been insti tuted to keep the Salmonella enteriditis organism out. These measures include regular tests of the laying house environ ments and a monitoring program for the eggs as they come out of the houses. Also, the laying houses themselves are completely Sauder's Penn-Dutch Farms , MOUNT joy, PA. 653 4743 weight hog. They are sold on soy bean meal, but we’ve got to have financing programs like this to get the product in their hands.” McCann said ASA would con tinue to push U.S. government officials for additional funding for protein meal. He noted that Presi dent Bush had approved a total of $1 billion in credits. McCann added that another positive note in the agreement was allowance of $25 million for fro zen and chilled poultry meat, which translates to additional ton nage of U.S. soybean meal used on poultry farms in the United States. Mt. On washed and disinfected when an old flock is removed and a new one installed, about once a year. “Salmonella enteriditis has been around for a long time,” said Sauder, “but it’s only become a serious problem for the egg indus try in the past two or three years. In our company, and elsewhere in the egg industry, we have responded to the SE threat with lower refrigerator temperatures and lighter on-farm sanitation procedures. “We are also doing everything we can to encourage better food handling practices through the wholesale and retail food distribu tion chain.” Sauder said his company has started an Approved Egg Handler program and seminars to help edu cate restaurant and institutional kitchen employees on the proper handling, storage, and preparation of eggs and egg dishes. To earn an Approved Egg Handler Ccrlilicatc, an organiza tion must agree to refrigerate eggs until they arc used, and to rotate slocks to insure freshness. Sand er’s food service drivers assist with the egg handling program. As part of the program, special food safety seminars will be held at the Sauder’s processing plant in Lilitz for kitchen staffs that use Sauder’s Eggs. A food safely video and other trianing materials from the Ameri can Egg Board will be used in the seminars. Dr. John Schwartz, a poultry agent with the Lancaster County extension staff, will also participate in the training. “V Joy
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