The Stanley Dairy

A. B. Stanley was a farmer in Saunders County, Nebraska and operated a dairy there in the 1920's and 1930's. He sold the operation in 1939 and retired. His dairy was quite modern for the time, and the improvements he made were well chronicled in the Ashland Gazette and other local newspapers. The ad below is from the October 22, 1936 edition of the Ashland Gazette:

March 22, 1928

A. B. STANLEY BUYS ADJOINING EIGHTY

A. B. Stanley recently purchased the eighty acres of bottom land adjoining his farm on the north, of Charles Stickney, and is now making improvements on the place. On Monday he began the erection of a big dairy barn, 100x50 ft., which will be large enough for fifty head of cattle. The building will have all the modern equipment for a first class dairy barn. Mr. Stanley is enlarging his already fine herd of Holsteins and is buying only good record making cows.

Lincoln Evening Journal, January 25, 1929

NEW DAIRY FARM

ASHLAND, Neb., Jan. 25.--A. B. Stanley, dairyman, expects to move to the farm which he recently purchased east of town. Mr. Stanley has improved this farm by putting up some fine buildings, including a dairy barn which is one of the largest and best equipped in Saunders county. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley plan to sell the farm northwest of Ashland on which they have lived for many years.

June 13, 1929

A. B. STANLEY INSTALLS NEW COOLING MACHINE

Mr. A. B. Stanley of the Stanley Dairy has installed a new milk cooling machine at his farm northeast of town. A detailed account will be given of the new dairy barns and laboratories at a later date, but we will comment here by saying that Mr. Stanley has made every possible effort to have his dairy up-to-date, sanitary, and modern in every sense of the word. The milk goes through a complete purifying process, the new machine handling the last stage. The milk enters the machine at a temperature of 90 degrees, and leaves it at 37. The remarkable thing about it is that the milk does not stop and go through a lengthy cooling process, but runs right thru a series of coils, which almost instantaneously perform the cooling work.

July 18, 1929

COWS HIT BY LIGHTNING AT STANLEY'S DAIRY

Mr. A. B. Stanley suffered a heavy loss in the severe electrical storm of Saturday evening when lightning struck and killed two good cows, which were valued at $500.00. Due to the fact that these cows were not pedigreed, Mr. Stanley carried no insurance on them. Mr. Stanley said that they were good milk cows.

October 31, 1929

Two New Silos Completed at Stanley Dairy

The two new silos which have been erected and filled during the past month at the Stanley Dairy, contribute much to the general fine equipment and the convenient buildings found there. The two silos are of 150 tons capacity each, and have both been filled with silage for the winter feeding of the cattle.

Since a few months ago when Mr. Stanley moved his dairy from the former location on the county line road, many improvements have been made at the new location on the D. L. D. two and one-half miles northeast of Ashland. Primary among these was the erection of the new dairy barn, which accommodates 50 head of cattle. One of the many convenient features of the barn is the individual drinking cups, which are so arranged throughout the building that the cattle have pure, fresh water all during the year without having to be drive outdoors to the old-fashioned water trough.

Electricity is used in every way possible at the dairy. One of its most important uses is in cooling the milk to 38 degrees, the temperature which is imperative before the milk is bottled. The bottles are washed, and all of the churning and separating done by electricity.

Mr. Stanley states that he is endeavoring to improve his Dairy all of the time. He is to be congratulated upon the amount of work which has been done during the past year in putting the dairy in up-to-date condition to handle the increasing business of the company.

Omaha World-Herald, March 30, 1939

SALE MARCH 31

A. B. Stanley will sell his entire herd of purebred Holstein cows and heifers. These cows are out of registered dams and sires. Very heavy milkers.

Ashland Sale Barn, Ashland, Neb.

April 5, 1939

Orval Thiessen to Open New Dairy

Orville Thiessen has purchased several of A. B. Stanleys' milch cows and has taken over the Stanley milk route. He will deliver milk and cream every morning and will also fill orders for buttermilk, butter and eggs. Mr. Thiessen has rented the Tarpenning acreage in the western part of the city and has a well-equipped dairy there.

Mr. Thiessen needs no introduction to the people of Ashland, as he has lived here a number of years and has operated a truck line for some time.

Mr. Stanley has been in the dairy business in Ashland for the past 20 years and has now decided to take a well-earned and much needed rest.