CHEESE FACTORY LIST

Daffodil Cheese Factory

Perry Township
1096 CTH H, Mt. Horeb WI 53572
Picture
1954

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Operated: <1913 - >1954
Cheesemakers: Albert and Anna (Beereuter) Vogel (1928); John Zurflueh started in 1935 after apprenticing and getting his license in Verona, WI. Zurflueh moved onto the farm in the 1940's but may have continued to make cheese at the factory but was not living there.
Cheese Types: Brick, Swiss
Patrons: August Goebel, A. Lunna, John Ranum
Notes: Biennial report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of WI: Mt. Horeb PO 1913, RD 3 1916, 1922, 1930. Used the Hoffman Cheese Warehouse in Mt. Horeb.
Picture
from "The Ranum Family"
Picture
John Zurfluh 1935. Cheese vat heated with wood. All other machinery was run off a power tree driven by a gas engine.
Picture
from "The Ranum Family"
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