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Description: | The milk is pasteurized for the first step in the cheesemaking process. Milk is heated to 161 degrees, held at that temperature for 15 seconds, and then co... |
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Description: | Workers are busy filling the stainless steel Brick Cheese forms with curds. |
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Description: | Each Brick of cheese weighs out at approximately 5 pounds. The general rule of thumb is that it takes 10 pounds of milk to produce 1 pound of cheese. A 5 p... |
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Description: | After the curds are leveled off in each form, they are turned so that each side of the Brick is pressed. During the course of the day, each form is turned ... |
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Description: | Brick Cheese derives its name from the bricks used to press the curds. |
Date: | 02 19 1915 |
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Description: | Speakers from the diversified farming program stand in front of a brick building near an awning. Each person wears a winter coat and brimmed hat, and there... |
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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: | 03 08 1915 |
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Description: | A group of men and women standing outside the New Home School to listen as Professor Clark is speaking on the subject of diversified farming. He uses a poi... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Men, women and children holding boxes and pails in the forest. Original caption reads: "VI Drive to W.S.; Chippewa blueberry pickers." The photograph is pa... |
Date: | 12 30 1937 |
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Description: | Grain sellers sitting in the market place in Zliten, Lybia. They are wearing traditional Arab robes and head wraps. |
Date: | 11 18 1926 |
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Description: | Cultivator mounted on a Farmall Regular tractor. Three men are posing on the equipment near a cornfield. |
Date: | 11 12 1926 |
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Description: | Man operating a Farmall Regular tractor with attached cultivator in a field. Decals are on the tractor. In the background are many farm buildings. |
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Description: | Arnold and Bernice Lifke were married 59 years ago, when Arnie returned from serving in the Marine Corp in the SW Pacific. They have lived on the farm most... |
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Description: | Lloyd and Kim Hilgendorf live at W2050 McArthur (Section 17). After working in the iron mines at Neda, Lloyds's great-grandfather, Whilhelm Hilgendorf, and... |
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Description: | The Hilgendorfs farm 300 acres with 55 milking cows and 45 heifers and calves. On this day they produced a little over 3,000 lbs. of milk. |
Date: | 2004 |
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Description: | Rex Vane was photographed with "Boomer," on of the 31 Llamas that he is currently raising. They appear to be very docile animals. |
Date: | 2004 |
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Description: | Jim and Donna Neitzel live on this farm at W2129 Hwy TW (Section 7). This barn has been in the Neitzel name for 100 years and will be deemed a Century Farm... |
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