New Brunswick Drugstore & Milk Bottles
Hildebrand cap
George Frederick Hilderbrand ( Fred) . I bought two of these Hildebrand milk caps on eBay almost a year ago. I was talking to David Hildebrand ( see baby in photo) who had already done an article on his family farm and he sent me these wonderful photos. The article dealt with the history of the farm but not the dairy business. The Hildebrands bought an existing farm in 1929 for $7000 and in 1934 added more land and built the big barn, which is probably when they started selling milk in bottles. David has a faint memory from when he was about three in the early 1940's of his father and grandfather bottling milk in the milk house. He believes they stopped soon after that as they were selling raw milk and the pasteurizing laws were clamping down on this. They did continue their " egg run " delivering eggs , mostly to the same people they had delivered their milk to. After that they sold their milk to Thistle Dairy of Fredericton. He doesn't think the bottles were marked in anyway .
Hildebrand cap
George Frederick Hilderbrand ( Fred) . I bought two of these Hildebrand milk caps on eBay almost a year ago. I was talking to David Hildebrand ( see baby in photo) who had already done an article on his family farm and he sent me these wonderful photos. The article dealt with the history of the farm but not the dairy business. The Hildebrands bought an existing farm in 1929 for $7000 and in 1934 added more land and built the big barn, which is probably when they started selling milk in bottles. David has a faint memory from when he was about three in the early 1940's of his father and grandfather bottling milk in the milk house. He believes they stopped soon after that as they were selling raw milk and the pasteurizing laws were clamping down on this. They did continue their " egg run " delivering eggs , mostly to the same people they had delivered their milk to. After that they sold their milk to Thistle Dairy of Fredericton. He doesn't think the bottles were marked in anyway .