Green County Cheese Output Sees 16 Factories Active
Green County lists 16 busy cheese factories with three holding butter output permits. The state agriculture license report names 76 facilities alphabetically including Monroe Argyle Brodhead Juda Juda Woodford Monticello New Glarus Blanchardville Brodhead and more, with locations such as route 1 Monroe and east of Argyle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green County
State Department of Agriculture
Swiss —Advance
Monroe
Apple Grove
Argyle
Attica
Albany
Balls Mill
Bidlingmaior-Isely
Biggs Co-op
Brager
Blanchardville
Burkhalter
Davis
Browntown
Decatur
Brodhead
Hill
Duncan''Hill
Evergreen
Clerno
Fairview
Farmers Grove
New Glarus
Five Corners
Flanagan-Olson
Franklin
Giese
Green County Center
Green County Co-op
Guttmer
Wood
Jordan Prairie
Kiondike
Krause
Kubly
Kueng Estate
Juda
Maple Grove
Maple Leaf
Poplar Grove
Prairie Hill
Prnewe
Puddle Dock
Arn Richland
Monroe Ridge
Rock Hill
Saw Mill
Blanchard Ville
Scott
Spece
Speich
Spring Creek
F. L. Stauffacher
Strommen
Town Hall
Monticello
Twin Gable
Martintown
Union Hill
Juta
Walnut Grove
West Clarno
Whitehead
Cheese Plants and Licenses Across Green County in 1950
The report lists Swiss and brick cheese plants in Green County and nearby towns, detailing licensed facilities such as Lakeshire- Marty Monroe and Milwaukee Cheese Co which acquired a former Monroe Center plant. It notes firms with American and cheddar permits, butter plants, condensaries, and a milk receiving station Frautschy and Herbert Clarno. A Wisconsin Tourist Bureau promotion and a humorous line about a four day bath for a cheese bath close the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Limburger — Clarno Center
Monroe
Grinnell
Wyss
Kraft Foods
Pioneer
Monticello
Silver and Lewis
Spring Cheese
Wittenwyler-Burgy
Wuethrich
Four Corners
American and Brick
Paul Grossenbacher
New Glarus
Poplar Grove
Brick Muonster
Albany
Browntown
Frautschy and Herbert
Clarno
Green County
Wisconsin Tourist Bureau
Jefferson Center Co-op
Twin Grove
Joe Jaeggi
ZumBrunnen
Green County Center
Two Swiss Sports Disappear From Local Scene
The report notes the vanishing of two Swiss sports, bowling and hornussen, from local life. It describes bowling as played in a long narrow alley and hornussen as resembling golf at first and then becoming airborne hockey with a puck driven toward goalies using large boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hornussen
Cheese Mountain Produced in Area Sparks Wisconsin Swiss Cheese Record
State agriculture records show Green Lafayette Dane and Iowa counties near Monroe produced over 704 million pounds of Swiss cheese in thirty years starting 1921, worth about 190 million dollars at 27 cents a pound. Green led with 305 million pounds. Dane peaked in 1947 at 38 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Mother Earth
State Department of Agriculture
Green
Lafayette
Town
Dane
Green County
Iowa
Dane County
Agriculture Department
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Ville
York Prairie
Bayfield Peninsula
Wisconsin Line
New York City
Denver
San Francisco
Atlanta
Wisconsin
Ault
Ault's
Clifton Ault
the Klassy Shop
Caroline and
Mae Klassy
Eugene Hotel
Trumpy Dairy
Robert B. Trumpy
Distributors of
Borden’s and
Voelken Bros. Dairy Products
Studer’s Super Service
6Th Street
Highway 69
Wiscon
Sider
Chrysler and
Plymouth Automobiles
Massey-Harris Farm Machinery
New Holland Farm Machinery
B. F. Goodrich
Wisconsin Engines
Tome
Studer's
G. Studer
Montgomery Ward
Monroe, Wis
Badger Paint Stores
Makers Or
Mastercraft Paints
G. W. Perrigo
Badger Paint Store
Armstrong Linoleum