Destructive Fire Devastates Historic Family-Owned Dairy Farm

A major fire has destroyed three buildings and damaged three more at a family-owned dairy farm in southeastern Wisconsin.  Four generations of the Herda family have operated the farm near Wheatland for the last 110 years.  Nearly two dozen area fire departments responded to the alarm.  No people or cows were injured, but the owners say a dozen chickens were killed.  The fire apparently started in the main barn, spread to some nearby silos and damaged the family home.  Ninety cows were moved to a nearby farm so they could be milked.  The Herda family started the farm in 1908