Cream stations

[ddurbin]

Here's a new thread post in case anyone wants to continue on this topic.  Thought it would be nicer to have it as it's own thread, rather than hijacking Les Fords's obituary.

[Diane Amberg]

Yes ,you are right of course...sorry about that! Thanks all for the information.
I understand "Creamery".  UD has one and they make ice cream to sell from their own dairy herd. Mom's hometown, Horton, had one too, but they just called it the Horton Dairy. They sold milk, cream, ice cream, and cheeses. It's long gone now.
I remember also the milk pick up stops along the railroad tracks when I was in elementary school. Slowly but surely that was replaced by the big milk tank trucks that went to the farms to pick up from the chilled holding tanks. One of our friends, Jim Wood had a milk pick up route through New Castle County Del and Chester Co. PA. He had all kinds of goofy stories to tell. Does Elk County still have any dairy farms left?

[flo]

when Ford's had the creamery in Severy if I'm not thinking of someone else, the building had two sides.  The East door was the creamery and the west door entered into a place they sold shoes.  When McIntyers (sp) had it they sold some groceries in the west side.  That is been many many years ago.  Also there was a creamery east of the main drag behind the grocery that was on the NE corner of the main intersection.  Okay, that is taxing my brain too severly.

[W. Gray]

T. Sackett posted in March 2008 a mention of the Fall City Creamery being in Howard in 1943.

Was this place on the south side of Washington west of Wabash?


In 2006, Janet Harrington posted mention of DeCoursey's creamery in Moline.

[W. Gray]

Photo of DeCoursey Cream Company in Moline.

This would seem to be a substation of the DeCoursey Cream company in Wichita?

I seem to recall DeCoursey's ice cream.



http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ksdecoursey/pics/moline.html

[Ms Bear]

Thank you, ddurbin.  I didn't feel right posting that on the obiturary site.

Does anyone know if there were in co-ops in Howard/Elk County that dealt with the milk and milk products and was most of it sold locally or was it shipped by train to Wichita.

[frawin]

Here's a new thread post in case anyone wants to continue on this topic.  Thought it would be nicer to have it as it's own thread, rather than hijacking Les Fords's obituary.

Dan you are right in doing it,
But my guess is that Les was enjoying the discussion, except he couldn't join in.

[frawin]

I remember Ferrys cream station, they bought cream and eggs and sold  feed. Also I remember that right across the alley from Ferry's was another cream station that bought milk and eggs and sold feed, the lady that ran it first name was Alta, I will think of her last name later.             THE DECOURSEY plant in moline made great cheese, you could go there and buy big rounds of cheese. I seem to remember that you had to sell them your milk to buy the cheese, probably because they didn't want to make the retailers mad. Lots of hog farmers got the whey or separated part of the milk for feeding their hogs. Worked one summer for a farmer that had a dairy and sold the milk to decoursey's and we took a pickup with a tank on it and got a load of the whey for hog feed.

[greatguns]

Thanks Dan.

[srkruzich]

You can't get a dairy farm in operation in kansas for less than 150,000 now days. thats just for the building that has to be permitted and up to kansas diary codes. I can't remember how much is for permitting but i think its like about 1/3 the cost, extortion fees you pay to government.  What is sad is that theres at least one dairy i know of that was grandfathered in and i wouldn't buy anything from it its so dirty.   And they raise hell if a farmer produces clean milk.   I drink mine raw straight from the cow. Have never been sick from it and most likely never will.  can't drink that stuff they sell as milk in the grocery stores.