The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 39

3f SON. JAN 5 i i960 DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW v4' Svp fL Milk Cans Get Sterilized Rinse Before Filling William Lees, 75, Drives Dairy Herd From Pasture to Milk Bam Long Hop From the 3-Legged Stool is a feeder at the front of each stall so Bossie can eat while being milked. The udders must be washed and sterilized. And the electric milker is resterilized afte each cow. By Neola Thompson For The Herald and Review Typical of many dairy farms in the area is that of Lees Son, a producer for Equity Union Creamery of Pana.

The farm is in Shelby County, 12 miles southeast of Pana. Today's milking parlor with electric milkers, weighing jars and pipeline into cooled tanks From the cow the milk goes to the weighing jar, a device which makes it possible to keep production records. From this jar, the pipeline is a far "cry from the three- takes the raw product to the legged- stool William Lees remembers. Lees, 75, continues to help with the chores at the now operated by his son, Lowell, and two grandsons, Paul and Joe. Field representatives of the A airy wor producers to A 1 malfp euro etato rpnnirpmpnt arp From Cow Milk Goes to Weighing Jar, Pipeline and Cooler cooler.

It takes two men Vk hours to milk the 55-cow herd. Each morning the milk is picked up and taken to Equity Union Creamery. Some 250 gallons a day are received and put in stainless steel refrigerated tanks. From the tanks, the milk is pasteurized, standardized cream is separated homogenized and cooled to 36 degrees. Then it is packaged in containers from half-pints to gallons.

Valley Lea is Equity's brand name. A farmer-owned cooperative, the creamery employs 20 persons. met. Lab checks are made by state health officials on both raw and finished product Before milking time the room must be made spotlessly clean. Milking machines are assembled and sterilized as are the pipeline and cans all with chlorinated water.

Dan Kiser Watches As Milk Is Pasteurized, Homogenized Machine Open Carton, Wax Coats, Cools. no Seals '-WtL SSTLj IV S-W sisal First-graders at Lincoln School, Pana, Sip Milk Supplied Under Federal Program Truck Is Loaded for Delivery to Retail Outlets.