2018.018.152 [Bottle]

This is a glass, one-quart milk bottle with a bulb-shaped neck that was used and distributed by the Carnation Company out of Waterloo, Iowa. This particular bottle was created around 1958. The Carnation Company started out in Waterloo in 1929 and was acquired by the Mississippi Valley Milk Producers' Association in 1971. The larger company would later change its name to the Swiss Valley Farms Co. The Carnation brand name was kept on products until the Swiss Valley title was phased out around 1978. The company stopped producing glass dairy bottles in 1975. This content can be used with the following standards: SS-Econ.9-12.24: Iowa Economy Impact Upon SS 4.26: Changes to Agriculture The acquisition of the Carnation Company by the Mississippi Valley Milk Producers' Association can be used in economics lessons to demonstrate to students the ways in which wider trends in Iowa economic policy facilitate the merging of business entities. It can also be used to demonstrate how the agricultural production industry of Iowa shifted from local sources of production to large corporate sources of production. For any use other than instructional resources, please check with the organization that owns this item for any copyright restrictions.