1000. This machine was installed over two years ago and by 
its efficient operation, washes, rinses, sterilizes, fills and 
caps 178 milk bottles per minute. 
By all these improved methods authorities on dairy equip- 
ment claim that with its machinery and equipment, also 
glass lined facilities for transporting milk, the Pittsburgh 
Plant of the Harmony Creamery Company is one of the most 
completely equipped plants of any dairy in the world. There 
have been inquiries from many foreign countries to their 
office, asking questions about their method of doing business 
and especially transportation of products. 
HERMES-GROVES DAIRY COMPANY 
In the year 1864 an orphan boy 14 years of age came into 
Pittsburgh. This young man had no worldly possessions 
except a pleasing personality and a burning desire to become 
a monumental success in the land of his adoption. Young 
Peter Hermes soon found employment as a farm hand on one 
of the largest dairy farms in the vicinity of Pittsburgh in that 
early day. Four years later he came to the city and entered 
the employ of a small dairy. His conscientious efforts were 
so successful that he was soon engaged by the then larger 
Ohio & Pittsburgh Milk Co. as general manager. At that 
time, 1872, this company operated two milk routes. In 1875 
he purchased the entire business of the Ohio & Pittsburgh 
Milk Co. and from that time on was actively at its head. 
In 1894 he was honored by his fellow citizens by election to 
the Council of Pittsburgh from the old 6th Ward. He served 
three full terms. During this time the company was managed 
hy his son, John R. Hermes, who is now president. 
Incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania in Novem- 
ber 1903 as the Ohio and Pittsburgh Milk Co., previously a 
partnership known as Peter Hermes & Son, and after pur- 
chasing the business of Joseph Groves Dairy Co., became 
known as the Hermes-Groves Dairy Co. 
The concern has continually forged ahead and is today 
considered one of the country’s foremost Milk and Ice Cream 
operations. John R. Hermes has instigated many reforms in