Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-06-19
A VISIT TO THE CHEESE
FACTORY AT BREMEN
(By c.. B. Ray)

Feeling that while we would be
pleased to have all our customers
those who furnish the milk and
those who consume our products,
visit our plants, we know it is i'm
possible for many of you to do so,
and so we want in this way to give
you a pencil picture of what is done
with your milk after it leaves your
home.
The writer has milked, strained the
milk in cans, which have been ster-
iuzed by our steam process at the
plant. and rode with Dale Miller,
one of Morgan county's haulers;
have seen and noted the conditions
of the farms and of many COWS pro-
ducing the milk. While we nave no
complaints to make, yet while we
are always trying to improve our
products, we are asking ana leei
sure you folks will gladly cooperate
After a pleasant ride with Dale we
arrived at the Bremen plant little
after / D. m, where we were taken
in charge by Mr.. Tharp. manager,
who offered to show us around.
While this may be called an ad-
vertisement we hope our readers
will feel as we do-that when we
advertise the Bremen cheese factory
we are not only advertising ana
helping Pickerington company, put
helping you sell milk. The more
cheese they can sell and the better
the quality, the better the price OF
the cheese, which permits them to
nav YOU more money for your milk.
On a former visit we told you
about the sparkling brightness or
the equipment, from the place
where the milk enters the plant un-
til it comes out as cheese. But let
lis tell you again. If there is any
dirt it came from your place. Every
precaution is taken and all milk is
pasteurized-that is the milk IS run
through pipes under a heat OF lb5
degrees, then cooled to 80 degrees.
We found seven watts, each OF Whlch
holds 10000 pounds OF milk-l,2OO
gallons to the vat, with storage
tank in the basement which holds
1900 pounds, and two DeLaVal NO.
72 separators.
Lest we forget, we will tell you
now that A. ]. Good, Picker1ngton,
O., is president of the company.
They have three plants, at Picker
ington. Columbus and Bremen. At
the Bremen plant approximately
two and a half million pounds OF
cheese was manufactured last year.
The average price paid for milk last
year was $1.55 per cwt.
Mr.. Good, the president and gen
eral manager, has been manufactur-
ing dairy products in Ohio the past
80 years His home is at Picker
ington. The Bremen plant has II
haulers who bring the milk from
thousand farms from A counties.
Feeling that some of our readers
are as unlearned as are we as to how
we come to have cheese, we are CIV
ing you the following hoping you
may enjoy reading it as did we:
Kanana who discovered cheese, |
was a merchant in Arabia. One day
he started on journey through a
country so full of hazards that he
did not pause, even in the heat OF
the day, for his usual lunch of dates
and goats milk When the cool
protection of night came, however, |
he made his camp and raised his
canteen to his lips. From the can
teen poured, instead of the rich and
refreshing goats milk, a thin, some
what watery liquid. Inside the can
teen he found a creamy white mass, |
a semisolid He had the soul of the
research scientist, had Kanana, and
he tasted the stuff. He found 1T so
pleasant that he ate all of 1t and his
hunger vanished. When he return
ed to his home, he told his friends
about the experience and the whole
community set about to find way
to cause goats milk to form the
rich morsel Thus was taken the
first primitive step toward the man
ufacture Of cheese as we know 1t to-
day.
What probably had happened was
this: Kanana, in hasty preparation
for his journey had used canteen