A Look Back: Butter Capital of the World, Steele County, Part 2

More on Steele County's butter history. Jerry Ganfield tells us of Mina Holmes’ dog treadmill, which she used to churn butter, and of Reuben Disbrow’s commercial combined churn and butter worker, which he invented while an employee of the Owatonna Manufacturing Co. Part two of two.

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