Silver Queen, Paradise Fruit, etc., being among its widely 
distributed products. The system of deliveries meets the 
exacting needs of groceries, delicatessens, restaurants, hotels, 
ete., with a service which is known to be dependable. Nearly 
two thousand salesmen covering about 1600 routes in some 
1500 electric and gasoline delivery cars maintain this service 
in all weathers and often over long daily mileage far into small 
outlying villages and settlements. Retail distribution is bene- 
ited by the regularity of deliveries to nearly 80,000 stores 
cach day. 
This huge output is made possible by the maintenance at 
a high state of efficiency of the modern mechanical equipment 
attended by bakers trained to the repetition of perfected 
methods and operations. The common acceptance of sani- 
tariness in the production of foods not only prevails in all of 
the Ward plants, but is also made a religion of the trade in 
each room. The adoption of standard processes in production 
is alded by the maintenance of standardized ingredients 
chosen by specialists in laboratory analyses made effective 
by daily inspection of raw materials used in all products. 
RIECK-McJUNKIN DAIRY CO. 
Folks who lived in Jane Street section of South Side back 
along about 1881—the light sleepers especially—undoubtedly 
were awakened in the early morning hours by the clattering 
of a horse’s hoofs over the cobbles. The horse drew a milk 
wagon and the driver was Edward E. Rieck. 
From this one-wagon milk and cream route there has 
grown the world’s largest dairy corporation serving hundreds 
of thousands of retail consumers with not only milk and cream 
and ice cream, but with practically every product of the 
modern dairy industry. 
Today, some 44 years from the time Mr. Rieck first 
shouted ‘‘Giddap’’ to his equine partner, the Rieck-Me- 
Junkin Dairy Company enjoys the position as the mother 
unit of the National Dairy Products Corporation, whose field