Bottle, Milk

Object Name:

Bottle, Milk

Object ID:

2024.038.01

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

circa 1950

Description:

Bottle, Milk. Glass milk bottle, marked in red, "Kadockadee Farm / W.T. Jordan & Sons / 'That / Good / Guernsey / Milk'" with an image of a cow, c. 1950.

Material:

Glass

Dimensions:

H-9.625 W-3.25 D-3.25 inches

Provenance:

Kadockadee Farm was owned and operated in Concord, NH by William Tenney Jordan (1891-1963). By 1932 he was milking a herd of sixteen cows. In 1947 William Jordan partnered with Professor Hilton Boynton of the University of New Hampshire's Dairy Department to form the New Hampshire Breeders Association. The cooperative soon acquired its own property to house bulls for an artificial breeding program. In 1966 it merged with similar organizations in the region to form the Ithaca-based Eastern Artificial Insemination Cooperative.

William Tenney Jordan Jr. (1922-2002) was born in Sutton and grew up on the dairy farm in Concord. He married Ruth Della Arthur (1925-2020) of Indiana in 1947, and the couple settled in Concord to join William's parents and siblings in helping to run Kadockadee Farm. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1950. Following a 1956 fire that destroyed dairy barn, the farm relocated to Canterbury and expanded. After more than thirty years of ownership, Ruth and William sold off the farm's seventy-six purebred Guernseys in 1973.

Credit Line:

Gift of James Black

People:

Jordan, William Tenney (1891-1963), Jordan, William Tenney Jr. (1922-2002)

Subjects:

Dairy farming, Dairy products industry, Cow milking, Milk, Milk industry