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Orrville Milk Condensery Completes 20th'iYearPlant Now Employs 60;Handles 200,000 Lbs.Of Milk DallyDuring the second week of July a score of years ago, the Orrville Milk Condensery shipped its first car load of - condensed milk to a firm ill Cincinnati.At the time it was front page r.cws in The Courier-Crescent; tor theCondensery was then an infant enterprise operating in its second month, employing only 10 men. and handling about 15,000 pounds of milk a day.In the two decades which have elapsed since then, there has been written a story of a growth which has placed the plant among the leading five industries of the city. The shipment of a carload of merchandise is a daily occurence now, whenAn weint bu?The Orrville Milk Condensing Companyit came into existence. L. S. H-olli^-the plant is shipping by rail; thenumber of employes has jumped to six times the original number, and during peak season milk from surrounding dairy farms flows into the condensery weighing tank at a rate of 200,000 pounds or more each day.Retains Original Directors Orrville was selected as the site for the Orrville Milk Condenseryplant largely because of J. S. Yoder of Goshen, Ind., who has been president of the firm since it was incorporated in October of 1917.* Mr.ger, assistant manager and assistantt) casurer, joined the corporation eight months at ter it started. Construction Took Five Months Converting a foundry plant which manufactured heavy castings into aplants, dairies, and confectioners purchase the products made at the plant. The area of distribution by both rail and tiuck covers practically all of Ohio and West Virginia, and most of Kentucky. A separate sales office is maintained in Cleveland toAlilk condensery, of course, entailed * handle the heavy business done in sweeping reconstruction, nearly allYoder was a native of Weilersvillej early June.of which was done within the brick walls of the old factory and foundry building. The work was begun in January of 1918 and completed in the latter part of May of that year. Manufacturing got under way inand familiar with the rich dairy yield of Wayne and surrounding counties.The original board of directors had been associated together in a condensery plant at West Liberty in western Ohio, and that plant had been abandoned before they bought the building in the southwest part of this village which had formerly housed the Woodard Foundry. Other directors at that time, still holdingThe site of the plant possessed two big advantages: it was only a few yards south of the main line ofthat vicinity.Although it is not a major item of production, some dry skim milk used as feed for animals and poultry has been made at the plant in the past five years.At Trail, O., the Orrville MilkCondensery operates a cheese factory and milk receiving station. This unit, which employs six men, was acquired in 1927. During its busy seas-the Pennsylvania Railroad east-west on, the cheese, factory ahndies 20,000lines and rail shipping was a simple /pounds of milk daily, matter; and south of the main build-) Spend $65,000 Monthly for Milk ing ample water supply was avail-; June and July are usually the peak able by drilling deep weils. The plant months for the condensery, the plant has its own water softener equip- processing about 200,000 pounds ofment imilk daily. (In gallons, this is be-iTwenty years ago, all of the pr*d-j tween 23,000 and 25,000 a day),. This their positions today through the ucts made at the condensery were amount drops to about half the figure in the slowest period of thescore of years in which the plant has been in continuous operation, were S. T. Miller of Elkhart, Ind., vice-presidient; F. S. ..Ebersole of Goshen, secretary; and J. E. Hartzler of Goshen, Ed. S. Lape of Bluffton, O.,I am J T\%* XT IP IWTiaVishipped by rail. Now there is a fleet of 13 trucks to supplement rail shipping. Most of these trucks are garaged in a! separate - building north of the main plant on Westwood avenue.Wirln A roo nf niatriKiitiiinwinter season.9j Milk from Wayne, Holmes, Tuscarawas, and parts of Stark and Co-i shocton counties is trucked to theā¦ ,.condensery by outside truckers, theentire fleet of the cow nan v heimr
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Orrville Courier Crescent
Orrville, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 14, 1938
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