Wild Wood Farms Dairy
Company Names, addresses, dates:
  Wild Wood Farms Dairy, Herndon, VA (c.1925-1935) 1
Notes:
The earliest newspaper reference I could find for this dairy was a November 13, 1925 'help wanted'
ad in the Fairfax Herald newspaper, seeking a "Man and Wife" for their dairy. Another ad
in the June 7, 1926 edition of that paper said that the manager was Geo. M. Tucker.
A June 30, 1933 ad in the Fairfax Herald said that R.C. Printz was proprietor of the dairy,
so it must have changed hands sometime between 1926 and 1933.
The ad described how Printz's bottles were marked (which matches the bottle below), and said that he
used 1 quart, 1 pint, 1/2 pint, and 1/4 pint bottles. The point of the ad seemed to be to warn his
competitors not to use his bottles.
And finally, an ad in the October 4, 1935 Fairfax Herald announced that the retail trade of the
Wildwood Dairy of Herndon was being replaced by the
the Hazel Dairy
of Falls Church. So presumably the Wild Wood dairy went out of business at that point.
Bottles
This is a 7.25" (1 pint) clear bottle embossed: above slug plate: ONE PINT / LIQUID round slug plate: WILD WOOD FARMS / DAIRY / HERNDON, VA. below slug plate: REGISTERED rear heel: 48 B 31 |