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Butter Making Class
Students dressed in white use large butter churns in a butter making class, probably at the University of Wisconsin Dairy School.
Making a One-Ton Tub of Butter
1930
Several men in white are shown churning a one-ton tub of butter for exhibit at the State Fair.
Prairie Farm Creamery
Exterior of the Prairie Farm Creamery with horse-drawn wagons in front. Caption reads: "Prairie Farm Creamery, Pr. Farm, Wis."
Making Cheese
October 1929
Corner of Swiss cheese-making room, showing a cheesemaker stirring ingredients in a copper kettle.
Loading Milk Cans
1937
A man unloads milk cans from a Ford Model T pickup truck at a creamery receiving station.
Pressing Curd
1941
Two men pressing the curd into a form at the Swiss Cheese Factory.
