One Cow In 1920; Today One ValJeys Largest Howard and Dan Smith of Smith Brothers Farm huw of! New Plastic Milk Cartons Recently Introduced Back in 1920, a White center. Washington, dairyman by t n e name of Benjamin F. Smi|h started a dairy business--with one cow. He had a ood cow. however, and was able 1o sell a share of her product over and above his own usa:je to White Cenler neighbors. Today, forty-two years later. that one-cow dairy businoss has grown to g r e a t proporqons, with its name and poducts well-known throughout the Pu- get Sound area. The extensive layout of Smith Brcthers Farm is located on the West Valley highway, midway between Kent and Auburn. Shortly after dawn daily, over 50 Smith Brothers trucks leave this plant loaded with fresh dairy products, and by nightfall they have travers. ed almost 3.000 miles, serving patrons from. E d m o n d S .'o Buckley. Benjamin Smith wag a Jar- sighted dairyman, and lookine, for greener pastures than those afforded around White Center, he moved his modest operation to O'Brien, Just north of Kent, in 1925, and five year later to the present site of the company on 68th Avenue south. From then on, the Smith dairy operation expanded rapidly. To- day, under the leadership of his sons, Dan. sales manager, and Howard, production mana- ger, the Smith Brothers Farm includes over 400 acres, a spa- cious office building, a modern processing and bottling plant, a milk barn that can handle 150 cows at a milking and is still being expanded, a hay barn, shop, storage building and oth- er accessories. Pretty Alexis Smith, daughter of Dan, does a full stint in the office, while maintaining a high scholastic average in school. C h a r I e s Johnson, a brother-in-law to the Smith boys, is farm manager. There are close to 100 em- ployes. Though Smith Brothers Farm cows produce a big portion of the milk handled by the firm, about half of total production is purchased by the company from other, smaller d a i r y farms in the Green River Val- ley. To give the freshest pos- sible product to its customers, Smith Brothers have replaced the ordinary milk pick-up with pickups from farms. The firm takes gan from this activity. About 30 days ago, Brothers introduced ern plastic coated milk in a modern new desi place the older wax This feature tends higher milk quality customer gets it. those who have a sort talgia for the long Smith milk carton friendly farm scenes these are still stocked side by side new yellow carton in dairy departments. " It is not recorded just type or size barn Smith had for his lone cow back in 1920, but parent today to tourists ing down West Valley is the fact that there of cows, lots of barns, o! everything on the Brothers Farm aeres close to the foothills of eade mountains. IT'E DAY5 FR