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| Description: | There is some cream in the whey, which is extracted by pumping the whey through this cream separator (a Westfalia Centrifuge). |
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| Description: | Cheesemakers remove loaves of Brick Cheese that have been floating in the salt brine tank for 14 hours. |
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| Description: | The Foil Pack Brick Cheese is a surface-ripened cheese. Each cheese is washed with whey to enhance the ripening process, during the week-long stay in the c... |
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| Description: | Each Brick Cheese is packed in an airtight bag. A machine draws all the air out of the bag and a clip is applied. By dipping each package in hot water, the... |
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| Description: | When making Cheddar Cheese, slabs of cheese are turned and packed, which is called, "Cheddaring." |
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| Description: | The slabs of cheese are put through a curd mill, which makes the popular Cheddar Cheese Curds. |
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| Description: | Salt is sprinkled on the newly cut cheese curds. |
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| Description: | The finished cheese curds are weighed and poured into forms to make a 40 pound block of cheese. |
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| Description: | In 2004, Widmer's added 3500 sq. feet, which includes packaging, cold storage, loading dock, office and bathroom facilities. Pictured here is Widmer's CEO ... |
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| Description: | CEO Joe Widmer and Office Manager, Kristine Miescke, go over reports in their office. Widmer's ships cheese to every state in the union. |
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| Description: | CEO Joe Widmer stands in the newly added area used for cheese packaging. |
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| Description: | CEO Joe Widmer stand in the 40-degree cold storage room where Widmer's ages their award winning Cheddar, Brick, and Colby Cheese. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Kenyan exchange student visiting cows in a dairy barn. |
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| Description: | A model dairy farm maintained by Hoard's "Dairyman Magazine" for experimental purposes. Two women are walking in the driveway near the buildings on the rig... |
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| Description: | View across road of a cheese factory on the side of a hill. Several people are walking down the driveway, and a car is parked nearby. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Waggoner steadying a metal pail on the platform of a cream separator as it is collecting cream at International Harvester's demonstration farm. Milk i... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Waggoner straining milk from a bucket into an electric cream separator using a piece of cheesecloth. A metal bucket is standing on a platform and a me... |
| Date: | 11 1919 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Irving Bielby operating a cream separator run by a gasoline engine at Babcock farm. |
| Date: | 06 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Catherine Clayton (left) is handling money and the cash box, while Ernest Corley (center) is examining identification at the beginning of a three-day conf... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for "McCormick-Deering Ball Bearing Cream Separators with Stainless Steel Discs." Features a photograph of a man using a c... |
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