EllMjnctttflr Fartrtng, Saturday, June 3, 1995
‘Nature’s Best’ Processed At Maryland Dairy
KAREN BUTLER
Maryland Correspondent
FREDERICK, Md. Five
days a week, the tractor trailers
carrying milk from daily farms
throughout Maryland roll into the
receiving bay at Dairy Maid
Jody Vona.
John Deere
Industrial Power Units
19 to 375 HP
for
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Dairy, unloading more than two
million pounds of nature’s best a
week.
It is at this processing company
in Frederick, one of five such dair
ies in the state, that the milk is pro
cessed, packaged, and then distri-
buted throughout central Mary
land, Northern Virginia, and into
Washington, D.C.
In 1946, Dairy Maid’s owner
Joseph Vona purchased what was
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This machine fills and seals 110 half-gallons per minute. The Jugs are manufactur
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Connectors - Brass Fittings
at that time the old Excelsior
Dairy on Vemon Avenue. Vona
was from Pennsylvania, and he
married a Frederick girl. Vona op
erated Excelsior until in the early
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19605, when he combined it with
several other small dairies and
formed Dairy Maid. The company
has continued to grow, and today
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