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Garden City Feeder Company Shaped Pella’s Industry
The Garden City Feeder Company in Pella has long dominated local employment and sales, helping stabilize finances and drive growth. From its 1898 start by A. C. Van Houweling, P. H. Van Gorp and J. H. Van Gorp, it expanded from threshing machine feeders to the Garden City Weigher, operating a large Pella plant, regional branches, and a Canadian subsidiary. The firm once employed about 185 in Pella with a 25–35 person sales force, and yearly output nears a million dollars, sustaining Pella’s prosperity and regional commerce.
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