Kleinburg History: Recent Additions
This photo of an old milk delivery wagon was supplied by Joan Love. The reminiscences below are taken from Jim Maw's monograph on the history of Nashville.
Reminiscences:
"Daddy" Geller had a full set of whiskers and ran a creamery business in the back barn producing butter, cheese, cottage cheese, and whey with one of the first gas engine powered cream separators.
He was processing around 30 cans of milk a day and the skim milk that was left was just dumped out and lay in bug puddles down by the store. "Daddy" Geller had a flock of geese that ate any of the whey that might have been left in it. McCluskies often got whey to feed their hogs.
Richard Agar, John Agar's Grandfather, sold up to 10 cans of milk per day from 1918 to 1925 and William Agar claimed that "Mammy" Geller was the only person he ever knew that could "Heap milk up in a gallon measuring jug". The creamery used to have up to a hundred pails used in their cheese making and would wash them and set them out on the back stoop to dry. The neighbourhood kids would fire green apples at them making quite a racked.
(Alvin McCluskie)
from the "History of Nashville" as collected by Jim W. Maw.
Copies available at the Kleinburg Book Company.