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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-03-21, Page 4Adv anon -'!lows, !larch 21, 1979 nrise ai ee s r n Milk has long been a staple of our diet In addition to Yr. and Lars. Bailey, holding tank. it than passes through a and so, in as area celebrated for sons Bernie and Jim and iaughtw-in- pi eeWw to the clarifier, wWeb removes agriculture, it's no wonder a whole law Carol run the dairy and the ex- any farm sediment and all but two per string of dairies soon sprung up to tetneve milk routes. The men are cent of the Bream, and from there into a D ry k P t dt process and distribute it. Of all the usually on the road while the women small holding tank small processing dairies which used to handle the actual operation of the From the small tank the milk passes a dot this area, however, only one dairy. The only non -family employee is through the "high -short" system, remains: Sunrise Dairy. Although Eugene Grubbs, who drives the bulk where it is pasteurized by being quickly s other dairies still distribute milk, tone milk truck. heated and then as. quickly cooled. of them process and package their own In the past 16 years the price of milk Pasteurizing takes only 17 seconds and pmt. has gone from 24 cents per quart to 58 the equipment has a capacity of 5,000 back to cents a the or 69 cents delivered Sunrise Dacey traces.hts roots c dairy lbs. per hour. SOP1922. when John McEwen started to your door and the business has grown After being pasteurized the milk is selling ;-pasteurized milk from his immensely. In 1966 the dairy paid $1,500 homogenized break up the crem and Bag farm for five cents a pint and eight a month for milk; that has grown to filteredo a tank near the ceiling, cents a quart. Five years later Albert $36,090 a month paid to the Ontario Milk where it is routed into either the carton Foxton bought the herd and took over Marketing Bond to be passed on to or Ding machine. the milk business, and in 1934he bought suppliers Sid Moffatt, Doug Fortune, Since the Baileys have owned it the a building in Wingham and moved the Harvey Niergarth, Bill De Vos, John dairy has stuck to milk anti, cream and eia}ry operation into town. Norman and i)iCt DeBoer. hasn't got into ice cream or other dairy • T6e pasteurizing process was in- Sunrise has also bought ollii; a number products. Excess cream removed by troduced shortly after this and Foxton's of other dairies in order to expand its the clarifier is either packaged and sold Dairy was one of the first to use it. Mr. territory for delivery. Its three for coffee or :.`ppmg cream or is R . Foxton opened a restaurant in the front refrigerated trucks now deliver milk shipped to the Coop at Guelph to be of the building. Home made ice cream and other dairy products to homes ar made into butter. was available there and when a stores in communities throughout this customer ordered a banana split he got area, including Wmgham, Listowel, HAVE TO BE CRAZY* one made with a whole brick of ice Brussels, Palmerston, Walkerton, Anyone thinking about starting a cream. Teeswater, Clinton, Mesisrd, Owen dairy is crazy, Mrs. Bailey declares, b In 1961 Mr. Foxton sold the dairy to Sound, Seaforth, Harriston, Wroxeter, but she doesn't seem eager to exchange Harvey Clark of Cargill, who removed Bluevale, Mildmay and Mount Forest. way of life. Everybody works seven - : much of the equipment and closed the The milk business is hedged around days a week and up to 14 hours a day, building. Two years later the present with regulations and safetgt-ards im- their only holidays are Christmas and W, through owners, Mr. and Mrs. Renus Bailey, posed by the government thr its New Year's Day and she hasn't hada Q f *' bought the business ,and moved from various branches, Mrs. Bailey noted. vacation in 16 years. North Bay to make their home here. You must be licenced On the other hand and bonded to sell You have the �� �•' � Things were pretty dismal when they milk and you can expect regular visits satisfaction of working for yourself and ' first arrived, Mrs. Bailey recalls. It from the health units at the county level at Your own pace, she noted. was in February and the heat to the and from London and Toronto. The "You make a good living and you building had been shut off, with the agriculture ministry also checks have security, but the profits aren't 141 F consequence that water pipe=s had dairies and every so often the consumer excessive." frozen and burst moOft a meas of the _ alefairs. people, in apd Y� pght She likes me ides of smaU lair= ._.. place. eighing containers and was sorry to see so many of them . v through the stark, w It took a couple of *eek: tq4et the to makesure they are giving full value. disappear. The little dairies offer '4" r restaurant operating again and at first So closely are dairies monitored that fresher milk,'sbe said, noting that theyz. they bought their milk from Cousin's even if some milk is accidentally spilled get it in and out faster, and they don't k' Dairy in Brussels. Finally in May they during the processing stage they must add anything to the milk except - got the dairy going and started bringing estimate the quantify and record it. Vitamin D. HOW IT GETS THERE -If you've e`v'er wondered how the in their own milk. Written records must be kept of all milk Port Elgin has the only other small milk gets into those plastic bugs you buy in the stores, pay a The milk was shipped in cans back that enters and leaves the diary so the #iry left in this area. visit to_Stinlrise Dairy sometime. Mrs. Renu: Bailey and then and the bulk price was 4.78 cents department of agriculture can verify it She believes one reason so many Carol, her daughter-in-law, operate the machine which per hundredweight, plus a bonus for isn't getting any milk other than what it small dairies disappeared is that they high butterfat The Bailey's first is allowed under the quota system wouldn't compete with the large dairies , , ..; u..,�♦:ar »ria d f makes, sterilizes, THIS and seals the bags. According to Mrs. Bailey this is one of the best ways to buy milk, since suppliers were Albert Foxton, who still MODERN EQUIPMENT and chain outlets, and she doesn't in - Tinted glass, roof carrier, appearance group, you know the container is clean and has never been reused. had his dairy herd, and Simon Hallahan. The equipment at Sunrise Dairy has been updated over the years until it is tend to let that happen here. "I won't be undersold on the price of GALLONS 3 GALLONS -Young Jessica Bailey doi*n"f ` -' Metallic blue, radials -- " eels, 6 cylinder, automatic, custc c i 9,000 miles. Plus tax and licence f LOTS OF CHANGES as modem as any large dairy, just on a milk," she declared. have to worry about not getting enough Milk. She and her, • 19'71 eros M ROYALE 1 DR. SEDAN117'1 dairy business has changed quite smaller scale. Everything in the, She is also a firm supporter of the mother, Carol, look atgallons of It in a small holding tank at • MThe %1s . , a bit since 1963, with most of the. small system is stainless steel, as required by community, and although she noted Sunrise Dairy. The milk has already been filtered and had • dairies gradually giving way to a few regulation, and the mills is never they don't get out much because of their al I but two per cent of the cream removed. Next it will be 1M NOVA IIATCHBACK .1n1Mit.4_; h11PA large ones located in the cities. But Sunrise Dairy has kept up with the times and continues to operate suc- touched from the time it arrives at the dairy until it leaves. When a truckload of milk comes in work she does keep abreast of com- munity affairs. "If we have to fight for the hospital or something else I'll be circulated through the pasteurizer and homogenizer in the background before being sealed into cartons or plastic bags. tilt steering wheel. power steering, new condi- cessfully as a family business. from the farm it goes into a large right in there fighting along." I *1 L LID 111 1,1 II III I>lel L - - :. ,.,,rc,;�; ...alv�w,:�..w �ww+�s�:1;Ax Tlts?i-• . ii G1.11111WI-INEW news from "the Peole Pleasersp , SPRING CUP SPECIALS r NEW,CARS O.K. USED CARS 1919 OtDf M RdYALE "DIE" 19" IMPALA 3 SEAT WAGON 4 door sedan, tinted gloss, cruise control; Tinted glass, roof carrier, appearance group, radio, .. " - group special 2 tone green point. serial 3N69N9M2325W. power tailgate lock, dual horns, radio, 2 tone beige and browii. Serial 1 M91135204. 197a CAMARO COUPE SPECIAL List $9516.50 SPECIAL List $8699.25 Metallic blue, radials -- " eels, 6 cylinder, automatic, custc c i 9,000 miles. Plus tax and licence f :7645. 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