The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-08
HER CREAMERY
IS CLEANEST IN
WHOLE COUNTRY
What Federal Expert Says of
Vermont Young Woman
FLOORS ARE IMMACULATE
Remarkable Record Made by Miss
Hanna t4aionen as Managing But.
termaker at Wardsboro Creamery

10 NeIuOHl NOludu uSlOhb Ihc
distinction Of being the first cream
cry buttermaker and manager in New
England, If not in the United States.
This is Miss Hanna Halonen, who
some time ago won cup in the Wind
ham county creamery Improvement
contest for having the most attrac-
tive creamery in the county.
There are a lot of interesting and
out of the ordinary things connected
with Miss Halonen. Her biography
APPEARED In The Reformer in March,
1917, but recently an account OF
visit to the Wardsboro creamery has
been written She. came from Fin
land In 1900 and did not know q word
OF English when She arrived. Previ
GUS to her departure, she had taken a
course at one OF the Finnish govern
ment creamery schools ands had a
couple OF years OF subsequent success
| full management Of a Finland cream
cry. Upon her arrival in this country
she was constrained to work at a
hotel until she became acquainted
with the English language in 1902
while working in Massachusetts as 4
housekeeper she learned, through a
newspaper advertisement that the
Wardsboro Creamery association was
in need of competent manager, be.
cause they were to change from a
milk station to ALTERNATING cream
cry. Miss Halonen got after this
position as buttermaker and has held
il ever since.
This creamery is located III a small
mountainous town in one OF the most
beautiful sections of the state and its
average annual output is about 10000
pounds of butter. Miss Halonen does
all the work connected with the
creamery, from taking in the cream
from the farmers wagon TO the weigh
ing, the sampling, testing, ripeninl
and churning the cream, packing tnd
Iprinting the butter and sending ii Il
the market and scrubbjng the floors
According to a statement recently
mode by MAIDS Sondegaard Of the fed
c.al dairy division. and he ought t
know, because he has perhaps seer
more creamiers all over this countr!
and Denmark than any other man
Miss Halonen has the cleanest cream
: cry IN the country His Statement
is substantinted by a Boston part!
who recently made a visit TO tn,
place and when returning one gentle
man very aptly expressed, "tlat VI
T man actually has cieanness Beat
|, for although she did not know w
were coming the floor in the bOIle
room was so clean and free from hIs
that fellow would not soil a whit
handkerchief If he should try 20 us
D it for wiping the floor Everyon
. else who has been fortunate enougl
to see the creamery will say the sam
thing Miss Halonen herself, O
: course, Is clean also She wear
e white caps and aprons. blue bloomers
/. and rubber boots when working. an
, as one gentleman expressed recently
she does work which many ma
would call hard and difficult
I 1t Is interesting. to say the least. L
;, visit the Wardsboro creamery. In on
| room Miss Halonen has combined re
ceiving room, testing room, engin
room, and parlor. In one corner sh
has linoleum on the floor where sh
4 receives the cream, weighs an
samples It. Adjacent to that she la
her desk and Office room. in on
, corner of which her Babcock tesle
is stationed. There she has wooC
: EN- floor In the next corner, IN
I blank polished engine protrudes on
! cement floor and without the custom
airy oil stains and grease ordinari
; associated with engines. In III