Harmony- Industries:  Creamery
The East Somerset County Register
1911-12
Compiled and Published by Chatto & Turner
Auburn, Maine
Clarence I. Chatto; Clair E. Turner
page 116-117


Creamery

There was installed in June, 1903, at Old Riverside Hall,
---used formerly for hardware store, paint shop, tin shop, --a
branch of Solon Creamery Co. which has creameries in Solon
and Norridgewock also.  It started with about 45 or 50 pa-
trons and increased every year up to the present time, when it 
has about 180 patrons in Athens, Wellington, Brighton, Cam-
bridge, Parkman, Abbott, Ripley and St. Albans.  During the 
year ending Dec. 31, 1909 about $44,000 worth of business was 
done and in the year ending Dec. 31, 1910 nearly $50,000.

It has outgrown machinery twice and the capacity has been 
twice enlarged.  It is equipped with thoroughly modern ma-
chinery.  Collecting is done by a system of cream wagons.
Three men devote their entire time to collecting cream.  Several 
others work a part of the time.  Product goes to Boston and 
Medford.  The express bill to American Express has been 
$4070.  There is an agent of the company in Boston.  The 
creamery has influenced the keeping of stock and has been the 
means of getting a Dairy Testing Association organized with 
has helped the farmers.  Mr. Withrell is the official tester. 
He goes for house to house and tests each individual cow, 
giving knowledge of profit or loss from each member of the 
herd.


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