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/ee hundred half-pints a minute are filled and sealed in the fully automated fill
ing area.
These milk silos punctuate the skyline on Frederick’s Vernon Avenue. Milk comes
in and is unloaded Into the two 25,000 gallon raw milk silos on the left. All tanks are
bulkheaded into the sanitary part of the building to reduce labor and produce a better
product.
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‘Nature’s Best’
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er of milk for the Baltimore-
Washington metropolitan area.
They distribute gallon, half-gal
lon, and quart containers of milk
for the grocery store and chain
store market and provide half
pints for schools, nursing homes,
and hospitals. One million, two
hundred-thousand half-pints a
week go to the schools alone.
Dairy Maid is the supplier for all
District of Columbia schools and
many Maryland county schools.
About 10 years ago. Dairy Maid’s
excellent reputation also started to
bring the company operational
contracts with the U.S. military.
In addition to fluid milk. Dairy
Maid produces sour cream, low fat
and whole chocolates, and butter
milk. They also distribute 100 per
cent orange juice, apple juice, and
pineapple juice, and a full line of
juice drinks and bottled water.
Dairy Maid is unique in that,
under the direction of the brothers
in 1984 or 1985, the company de
veloped innovative packaging for
their milk and began manufactur
ing their own plastic gallon and
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half-gallon jugs through a blow
molding process. They also now
sell these jugs to other processors.
The plastic manufacturing opera
tion runs in two 10-hour shifts.
Fifty half-gallon containers can be
produced in one minute, and 40
gallon containers.
Eight to 10 loads of FO 4 milk a
day are brought in by Mid-Ameri
can Dairyman Inc. There is 100
percent antibiotic screening done
on all loads. The operation is total
ly automatic and everything is
washed in place. The receiving
area includes two 25,000-gallon
raw milk silos, where the milk is
pumped when it first arrives. All
tanks are bulkheaded in the sani
tary part of the building.
The first step in processing the
milk is pasteurization. Milk is
heated to a minimum of 165 de
grees for 15 seconds, then cooled
to 35 degrees. Next, to homogen
ize the milk, it is put under 1,500
pounds per square inch of pressure
to break down the fat globules.
Then milk is standardized to the
correct butterfat: 1 percent, 2 per
cent, or skim. It is separated while
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