C4—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July 30,1983 ' All bottled up (Continued from Page C 2) bottling their own brand of milk . prevention measure. Cardboard Among those universities with cones were the first disposables, their own bottles were Penn State, and were used in delivery of milk Cornell, Virginia Polytechnic to homes under quarantine for a Institute, University of Delaware, communicable disease. Rather University of Maryland, Bucknell than return a bottle from a and West Virginia University, quarantined home, the cardboard Although no longer a dairy container was burned. farmer, Tutton is adamant about University bottles date from the promoting milk and maintains a era when many learning in- standing offer to any promotional stitutions maintained a herd of group in his area that would be dairy cattle for teaching, plus interested in milk memorabila for f-r* W~kjT Likely the tiniest milk bottle at York Show was the Borden miniature exhibited by Ralph DeVillars. In the center of grouping, it was originally designed by Borden as part of a milk wagon toy. Its size is even overshadowed by the glass coffee creamers. dairy advertising displays. Manning another “milk bottle booth” was Ralph DeVillars of Kane. A McKean County dealer for Pioneer seed com and Central Petroleum Company, DeVillars is also a former dairyman. For several years, DeVillars was a representative for the Penn sylvania Department of Agriculture, picking up milk ring test samples across the western part of the state. Although he recalls occasional thoughts of trying to collect a bottle from each dairy he visited, it was DeVillars’ wife who finally paved the way for his hobby. “She got interested in depression glass, and finally talked me into wasting an entire Saturday going along to look at this ‘junk’,” he chuckles with the recollection. But a couple of milk bottles be spied while strolling through the displays of “junk” firmly etched themselves into his memory. “For two days, all I could think of was milk bottles,” he laments. Now a self-proclaimed “milk bottle nut,” he set out to research the history of and track down a sample bottle from every dairy with its own containers that ever operated in the 12 northwestern counties. His interest and expertise recently won him an invitation to become the Eastern reporter for the MOOSLETTER, a California published national newsletter for milk bottle collectors. Another promoter of the product that filled the bottles he adores, DeVillars is dismayed by the current state of the dairy industry and lays a chunk of the blame on producers who willingly add to production but refuse to help promote their own product. “At three o’clock on a Saturday afternoon in town you can’t even find a container of milk,” he says, fiM-SGiwinr lEB&NOK: *»A 17042 cyutup CKCTTVC (717) 3488 J» J / C Mrw J) Hours Mor< *-•-}. •-» JO Not just for milk was this A.G. Smalley handle jar displayed by milk bottle expert, book author and farmer John Tutton. Hardware stores commonly handled container, popular for dairy and other liquid condiments. Patent on handle dates to 1895. disappointment coloring his voice. seUin g instead ” “And we have lots of campers and bottle collector, and tourists that frequent the area, Droba bly the rest of his peers, especially on weekends.” wou!d be just delighted if they'd ■lt’s about time the fanners stop start selling it in glass onc e again, producing so much, and start let ACME 1 cool it... THE KOOL-CEL SYSTEM Widely accepted throughout the swine confinement industry. It has high evaporative efficiency and long life effectiveness. THE MASTEB-EX FAN The unique energy ef- ficient squeezes every possi ble cubic foot of air from each watt of power to give you tomorrow s energy conservation system today. design
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