Rutters
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Business boomed, and in 1927 the
brothers invited brother-in-law
Lehman Crist to join the growing
venture. Crist’s responsibility was
to handle deliveries in his 1927 two
door Chevrolet coach.
By 1940, daily volume had
reached 4,000 quarts of
pasteurized, homogenized milk
delivered to York residents via
door-to-door truck routes. With the
decade of the 50’s came the ad
dition of tanker trucks to haul milk
from Rutter’s farm producers, the
opening of the first ice-cream
store, and remodeling of
processing facilities.
A new era began in 1968, when
the first farm store opened,
responding to changing customer
lifestyles. The 50 stores now ser
ving York and surrounding
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Skinner ft Walton
Dairy Service
Raymond Skinner
Gary Walton
717-352-7606
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Equipment
Robert L. ianney
215-593-2365
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Chock Moose, Inc. Rick Thompson
412-533-3077 717-656-3307
Celebrate
counties offer Rutter’s dairy
products, bakery goods from the
former Barton’s bakery
acquired in 1983, deli and grocery
items, even gasoline.
Three restaurants, including
banquet facilities, offer another
outlet for Rutter’s dairy products.
Today’s ultra-modern
processing at Rutter’s includes
flash pasteurization equipment,
cooling of milk to 34 degrees for
improved keeping quality, and
complete automation for
packaging of milk and ice cream
products.
The maze of stainless piping and
humming equipment can package
75 half-pints or quarts, 33 half
gallons, and 50 gallon containers
per minute. Three ice cream
machines produce 750 gallons per
hour in a range of flavors,
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Thanks also to all our dealers for their 7
efforts in selling and servicing the dairy
farmers the equipment to maintain top milk
production.
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Wchr’s Dairy
Equipmant
Mark Wahr
717-966 1396
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Kevin Corral)
717-897-5141
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Dramer Dairy
Equipment
Albert Brenner
814-654-7309
SOUTHWESTERN i
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Service, Inc.
Mika Wright
412-538-FARM
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Service
Jim Kelley
717-297-4128
providing a steady supply on hand
in the 25,000-gallon freezer unit.
A 1.5-billion byte computer keeps
both consumer and producer data
current, and dispatches vital in
formation to the 77 terminals at
Rutter offices, farm stores, and
restaurants.
Rutter’s continues to be locally
unique, one of the few dairies in the
state still delivering milk door-to
door and maintaining a herd of
cows. Milk is also supplied to
Rutter’s by 35 dairy farm pro
ducers in York and Adams
counties.
The farm has become known
over the years for its well-bred
registered Guernseys, with 170
head of milking and replacement
stock. Champion honors at both the
Farm Show and the York Fair
frequently go to Rutter entries,
and animals shown by the third
generation of Rutters have
received state and national
Say Hello To Thom And Discover
How Many Technological Advances
WILLIAMSBURG
Longenecker Implement
Dale Longenecker
814-793-3731
WILLIAMSPORT
WiUiama Farm Systems
Dave Williams
717-398-2692
HAMBURG
Skartiesvllle Farm Service
Dale Wenger
215-488-1025
awards
Operations of the family cor
poration continue under the
management of Lehman Crist and
several second generation
members of the familv. Brothers
iti .iatically stacked to the desired storage
height, then moved by chain-track to the 300,000-gallon
capacity refrigerated storage.
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William Stauffar
301-795-2727
301-781-7020
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1862 Brummel Dr.
Elk Grove, 111 60007
312-437-8660
Call Toll Free;
1-800-232-6723
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Mike and Leo Rutter, Dale and Jay
Crist, and Stuart Hartman Jr.,
actively supervise the diverse and
growing divisions of this family
business, which began with a 13-
quart milk sale.
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