Transcript
Index
00:00:00 - Introduction to tape 1, side 1
00:01:03 - Background and early connection with dairy industry
00:05:48 - Description of Creamery Operation before 1906
00:09:45 - Employment after short course completed
00:16:43 - Work in arsenal during World War I
00:19:03 - Employment after World War I ends
00:25:59 - Anecdote about "soapy butter" at Lafayette Creamery
00:28:00 - Lucia becomes fieldman for Wisconsin Cooperative Creameries Association
00:31:07 - Introduction to tape one, side two
00:31:39 - Duties as fieldman for Baraboo Valley district
00:33:57 - Contact with individual farmers
00:35:23 - Buttermakers urged to produce at least 92-score butter
00:37:18 - Testing milk for butterfat content before and after development of Babcock test
00:40:04 - More discussion on fieldman's duties
00:41:52 - Creameries begin direct sales to chain stores
00:46:18 - Competition between Wisconsin Cooperative Creameries and Land O'Lakes in 1920s
00:50:55 - Butter quality agreement between creameries and chain stores
00:54:10 - Observation on how some buttermakers cut butterfat test of farmers
00:56:15 - Lucia as fieldman required to live in rural area
00:57:58 - Location of some creameries in Baraboo Valley district
01:01:37 - Introduction to tape 2, side 1
01:02:12 - Role of cooperative creamery in community
01:05:08 - Effect of Great Depression on creameries
01:14:25 - Beginning of Lucia's involvement in the dry milk industry
01:22:01 - Beginning of Lucia's association with Wisconsin Dried Milk Products Cooperative in Eau Claire
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Partial Transcript: Butter originally sold by creameries to commission houses. After districts set up creameries began to market directly to chain stores, especially National Tea and Consumers companies. Lucia met with chain store buyers. Creamery districts did not compete against one another for sales. S. B. Cook, fieldman for District No. Four (Barron County), important in initiating chain store sales in New York as well as Chicago.