New Branchville Creamery Opened

Now Receives Eight Hundred Cans From One Hundred Twenty Seven Dairies

Tuesday of this week the Sussex Milk & Cream Company, a subsidiary of the Borden Company, opened its new creamery at Branchville for receiving milk. The building, which is 50 x 100 feet, is located on the side of the D.L. & W.R.R. station, which has been moved across the tracks. It is equipped with the most modern machinery, which in turn is operated by power furnished through Diesel engines.

Eight hundred cans of milk are received daily from one hundred twenty seven farmers. Nearly all of this milk is brought to the creamery by truckers hired by the farmers and comes from a wide area. Over the mountain, milk is brought from Flatbrookville to Port Jervis; also it is brought from Beemerville, Papakating, Hamburg, Lafayette, Newton, Swartswood and other points.

The Borden Company built the creamery that was abandoned at Branchville this week in 1901, and since that time has enlarged and remodeled once or twice.

Carl J. Barker, who has been with the company for thirty-three years, has been superintendent at Branchville since 1921. When he first came to Branchville, the creamery received between 450 and 500 cans of milk per day and nearly all of it was carted by horses and wagons. At that time about thirty-five men were employed in the creamery, and all milk received was bottled at the local plant. Today all the milk received is shipped to Newark in tank cars and trucks and bottled there.