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1916–17 and the search record of November 2026 · Polk 1916–17; USDA 2017 county profile
Two findings stand side by side, and the leg prints both rather than choosing. First, the directory fact: Polk's 1916–17 gazetteer entry for Lakeville names the Producers Union Dairy Co. among the town's handlers (Exports carries the handler line whole) — a dairy company standing in the town, at directory strength, in 1916–17. Second, the search result: a dedicated search of the carriers for a creamery, a cheese factory, or a milk route at Lakeville or in Union Township found none — dedicated searching returned creameries in other counties only, and the one in-county artisan dairy reached, J2K Capraio of Walkerton, stands in Lincoln Township and is recorded as a checked false lead. A directory line naming a dairy company is not a creamery: what Producers Union Dairy did in town — received milk, shipped cream, or kept an office — no carrier reached says. What can be stated: a dairy handler stood in Lakeville in 1916–17; no creamery, cheese factory, or milk route for the township stands in any carrier searched; and North Liberty's Schlosser Brothers creamery — proven there by NL-4, bought 1895, manager J. G. Holderman in 1916 — is a different township's record and is expressly not imported here, however near the years and however tempting the join. County dairy strength, county class: milk from cows sold $4,818,000 in 2017 (rank 33 of 77 reporting Indiana counties); cattle and calves 4,873 head. No township herd count was found in any carrier. South Bend's dairies stand at pointer only, as the checklist prescribes — the township's urban market was South Bend, eleven-odd miles north; no named South Bend dairy, receiving station, or Lakeville milk route is verified here.