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Ingersoll's Mammoth Cheese and the History of Cheese Making in Oxford County

 

 

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Later on we uh the factory was sold to Bordens dad, my father still operated it but most of that time the milk was simply brought in and we uh we cooled it and we trucked it in a container, a milk container in bottles in the truck and uh took it into Bordens. Most of the time in Ingersoll sometimes in Belmont, sometimes in Tilsonburg wherever they wanted the milk and so the factory was left as an out if they had more milk than they could handle then we made some cheese a little bit during the summer months. But that was sold my father sold it to Bordens oh around the late 40's, 48, in that era. But it was a place where the farmers came and they had lots of uh communication in those days they could visit there in the yard while they were waiting to bring the milk in, dump the milk in and then uh another job I had was washing the milk cans I didn't wash them quite by hand but there was a unit that had to be operated by a man who had to take the can, turn it upside down take the lid off and run it through a washer and so that was one of my early jobs.

 

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