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BY 1907–PRESENT · THE DAIRY LINE
The dairy county of the checklist prints, in this township, as a creamery and the farm that ran it: George E. Moon's 240 acres on the home farm his father William Moon bought about 1852 (Howard, vol. 2) fed the township's one named dairy manufacturer — Moon himself, "president, treasurer and salesman of the Crystal Springs Creamery," the firm the Businesses leg carries whole from Howard's sketch through the 1916–17 gazetteer listing to its unrecorded end.Tribune's farm pages as settlers. Between the creamery's end and the present the township's dairying prints as silence at directory strength — the gazetteers after 1916 were not reached, and no later creamery, cheese factory, or milk plant is named for the ground in any source.
The present dairy order stands on the township's east edge and is the largest farm enterprise left on the ground: the Martin family's operation at 60020 Ash Road — begun as a conventional milking operation in 1996, grown to some 600 acres and about 300 cows (Holstein and Jersey in the Farmer's Exchange's count; 300 Holsteins in the firm's own) milked three times a day, with its alfalfa, corn and grass grown on the farm — and since 2017 its own creamery plant and farm store (the firm whole in Businesses). The dairy article's discipline is the boundary: the farm stands outside the town limits, on Penn Township ground with an Osceola postal address, and it is carried here because the township's farm record is this section's to keep. A one-farm dairy present against a township-wide dairy past whose quantities are ungotten is this section's honest shape: the line is documented at its two ends and named a gap in its middle.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), vol. 2 (the Moon farm and offices); The Farmer's Exchange, 29 May 2020 and 27 May 2022 (the Martin operation's size and course); the firm's own About page — as cited whole in Businesses.