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Creation Date
1905
Description
In this image, cows are being milked by handlers on the Walker-Gordon Laboratory Company’s ‘Rotolactor,’ a device designed by the company to produce high-quality raw milk. The company initially never intended to be just a dairy company, aspiring to improve other industries, but the fame brought on by their revolutionary changes to the raw milk industry reinforced their role as milk producers. The company pioneered other innovations aside from inventing the ‘Rotolactor,’ which brought the company much tourism, with their biggest contribution being ensuring healthy cows and cleanliness to promote safe raw milk. During the late 1800s, raw milk had become dangerous and laced with deadly diseases, primarily because cows were being raised in the middle of unclean cities with water possessing toxic runoff, promoting disease in the cows that would produce harmful milk. By keeping the cows, handlers, and equipment extremely clean, Walker-Gordon was able to produce high-quality raw milk and became the largest milk producer in the world. The company was operational from 1897 to 1971, making major impacts in the milk industry by pioneering cleanliness and other inventions and practices that would contribute to the modern milk industry. After the dairy was closed, it was torn down and replaced by a suburban community named after the famed Walker-Gordon company.
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Keywords
Walker-Gordon, Milk, Milk Industry, Plainsboro, New Jersey
