The recent article on the unincorporation of Corning, Missouri, was read with interest and future folks can know what a busy place it once was. It also brought back the memory of a co-op creamery from Corning, Iowa, that ran a creamery route all the way to Corning, Missouri.

At the time, the co-op offered a few cents more per pound to the farmers still milking cows and selling cream by the “cream can.” Cream was sold by the pound and the butterfat determined the price. Payment arrived in the mail. The new co-op effectively folded other small town creamery businesses.

If recall is correct, weekly, the route meandered through the country picking up the cans of cream. The long route began early in the morning because the driver, Delmer Wilson, was in Atchison County by breakfast time. He often encountered bad roads, but rarely was it so he couldn’t make it.

What ended first? The creamery route that caused farmers to cease milking or the cessation of milking that meant there was no cream to collect? Does anyone remember this and are there any corrections? The time frame was late 1950’s and early 60’s.

Beverly Clinkingbeard, Westboro