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Monroe Evening Times in Monroe, Wisconsin

01 Sep 1950

Page 23

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Monroe Evening Times

Location

Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Sep 01, 1950

Page

23

Local Cheese Industry Josted Fifty Years Ago

Green county's cheese industry suffered a series of blows a half century ago driving a shift from local control to a centralized, merger driven market. The Wisconsin Milk Condensing Co. and later Borden's, Kraft, Phenix, and others reshaped production and distribution, while centralization and cooperative efforts stabilized the sector and improved milk quality. The piece surveys firms, mergers, plant moves, and key figures in Monroe's Swiss, limburger, and brick cheese history.

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Green County Wisconsin Milk Condensing Co Monroe Lakeshire Martyn Co Anglo-Swiss Condensing Co Charles Baltz Swandlimburger Chicago Cheese Co Ferdinand Grunert and Co Borden's Borden Borden’s Phenix South Side Shefford Kraft Carl O. Marty Carl Marty and Co Marty Carl Marty Sr Switzerland Marty Jr Charles Zuercher Cheese Co Brodhead Glauser-Ladrick Chicago Jacob Gempeler Marty-Gempeler Co Pauly Gempeler Tri- Cheese Co J. S. Hoffman Co Carl Marty Jr Monroe Co-op Winslow Badger Cheese Co Jacob Karlen Jr Joseph Ackerman and Co J. H. Elmer and Son Blum and Kacser Stauffacher and Roth Jacob Karlen and Son Monroe Cheese Co Jacob Reger Co Kraft-Phenix Badger-Brodhead Cheese Co Pauly Cheese Co Eden Lakeshire Marty Parrot Cheese Co Freeport E. A. Ninneman Brodhead Cheese and Cold Storage Co Wisconsin Cheese Corp Ninneman Robert F. Marty 15Th Avenue Lakeshire-Marty 12Th Street Milwaukee Cheese Co Wyss Limburger Badger
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Green County Cheese Storage Holds 27.9 Million Pounds

Storage capacity figures show Green county coolers could hold about 27.9 million pounds of cheese, mostly in Monroe with 24.95 million pounds and smaller amounts in Brodhead Monticello and New Glarus. At 35 cents per pound the value would be 9.665 million dollars. at 42 cents last winter it would have been 11.618 million.

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Green County Monroe Brodhead Monticello New Glarus Lakeshire-Marty Co Monroe Cold Storage Lakeshire-Martyana Swiss Cheese Corporation of America Kraft Foods Triangle
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State Tops Nation In Cheese and Dairy Output in 1948

Wisconsin led the nation in most dairy products for 1948 per Agriculture Department figures. Wisconsin ranked first in almost all items except cream cheese where it was second. The data cover cheeses including Munster, Brick, Swiss, Limburger, and American, as well as milk products like evaporated and condensed milks and whey.

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United States Department of Agriculture U.S Wisconsin
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Swiss Cheese Shop Aims Tourists On Madison Road Route

In Monroe area the Swiss Cheese shop on Madison road north of city limits draws tourist traffic. Started in 1938 by A S Myers Jr, Blythe Myers ran it until 1949. Now Archie Myers Jr operates the business retailing packaging and mailing aged cheese to steady growth as tourists along the main north south county route pass by.

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Monroe Madison Road A. S. Myers Jr Blythe Myers Archie Myers Jr
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Charles Zuercher Co Next Badger Kraft Dow Kraft Foods Co. of National Dairy Products Co William E. Wenger Ed C. Wenger Joseph Ackerman Badger Group Fred Emmenegger Illinois Central Charles A. Eckburg Maichinery Plymouth Lakeshire Emmenegger Ackerman Industrial Co-operative Union National Cheese Producers Federation Adolf Abplanalp Industrial Union Acherman Abplanalp Raymond Kubly Kubly Swiss Colony Cheese Row 17Th Avenue Fritos of Wisconsin Co Shetford George W. Stuart Co Karlen Stuart Kenneth Lafayette County Kaiser and Frazer 18Th Avenue Kaiser-Frazer K-F Frazer K & F Sales and Service Albert Ross Burton Bacon Lloyd Isely Ted Times Annex Ted Gaukrapp Roe’s Featuring Hamilton - Tavannes Watches Magdal LAGER South Side Market Monroe Dairy Fred R. Kuckuck S. Myers Russell J. Myers Milady Margaret E. Sollivan Nettie H. Murphy Mundy’s McKay Block Eugene Leland C. White Eugene Hotel
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