New milks for my collection

[morbious_fod]

Couple of new milks for my collection. First up is an Ebay find, it is a 1942 Clover Brand quart from Roanoke, VA with a war time acl on it.

 

[morbious_fod]

And the next is what I would assume to be a fairly rare Tazewell, VA Milk. According to my research the Tazewell County Co-op Milk Producers Association was formed in 1931 after the local dairy farms started investing heavily in new milk cows. They were hoping to make dairy goods a thriving industry in the area. The only problem was that it was the Great Depression and things didn't turn out as well as they had hoped. They had built a milk processing plant in North Tazewell where the farmers in the association would bring the milk to be bottled and processed into other dairy goods such as cheese, and butter. Unfortunately by 1933 things had gotten so bad in the industry that when the Imperial Ice Cream Company offered to buy the plant off of them, they quickly sold it. So this bottle (which is a 1931 as best as I can tell) would have only been used for two years at the most. One of the officers of the Co-op A. R. Beavers continued to produce milk himself well into the 1940's.

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Joseph,

Thanks for showing these great examples. Love the Buy War Bonds ACL. Looks like it just came out'ta the ice box.

Enjoyed the Tazewell Co. Co-op history too. Thanks.

 

[MINNESOTA DIGGER]

nice looking milk bottles

 

[morbious_fod]

Fain's Pinemont Dairy from Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia. I love the orange acl.

 

[morbious_fod]

Pet Dairy quart

 

[morbious_fod]

A Pure Milk Company half pint from my present home, Abingdon, VA.

 

[morbious_fod]

A 1/4 pint from the Rotherwood Dairies of Kingsport, Tennessee. They didn't bottle long, actually this one is a 1927 as best as I can tell, because they started supplying milk to the new Pet Dairy Company of Kingsport.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Nice stuff morb, I like the ¼ and ½ pts myself since I'm spatially impaired.[]

 

[morbious_fod]

I do as well; however, some of the quarts are tough to find so I made exceptions. LOL!