An establishment where dairy products are manufactured.
the butter factories gave farmers a good price for their milk
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Employment in the butter factory enticed footballers to sign for them.
It was the brand of the Upper Murray Butter Factory in Cudgewa, North Eastern Victoria.
The result was the forever recognisable pound of fresh butter and New Zealand's first commercial butter factory, which opened in Eltham in December 1887.
He had a butter factory in Eltham and general stores around Taranaki.
The butter factory was established in Centre Dandenong Road with a manager to oversee the operation.
Next he built a butter factory, only the second in the colony.
The obelisk used to stand outside the town's old butter factory, now the Services Club.
Dairy dominated the region for a century, and the ghosts of the butter factories remain scattered across the landscape as pubs and cottage industries.
Five years later saw 95 butter factories and 21 cheese factories operating, as well as 40 sawmills cutting wood from the fast disappearing bush.
The former Macleay butter factory co-operative also has become a retail co-operative, and currently is planning an expansion into petrol sales and the establishment of a parking station and entertainment complex.