HARMONY CREAMERY COMPANY
The Harmony Creamery Company was organized in the
City of Pittsburgh in the year 1893 by the deceased President,
B. F. Otto, in conjunction with his four sons, three of whom
survive and two continue to conduct the business. The Com-
pany was incorporated in 1908, taking the name of the home
town wherein the father and sons were born and raised, with
capital of $50,000. The business continued to grow until the
annual output increased from a few hundred dollars to the
present, where the sales are running between three and four
aillion dollars. The demand for Harmony Products became
of such volume that it was necessary to open up new sources
of supply, build additional plants, one for manufacturing but-
ter, one for the manufacture of powdered milk located in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, with seven other plants for the con-
densing and pasteurizing of milk.
The number of employees a few years ago including all
departments was fifteen. Employees on the pay roll at pres-
ent number 225. The present capital authorized is $500,000,
with $220.000 preferred and $150,000 common issued.
In order to supply the demand, from one horse and wagon
the delivery increased to 100 horses and wagons and 25 trucks,
all of which are in use to deliver milk, cream, butter, eggs, and
cheese to all points in Allegheny County, independent of busi-
aess outside of the County, which is taken care of by express
and freight delivery.
The Harmony Creamery Company was two years in the
iead to adopt the present method of pasteurizing milk, and
the first company in the world to transport milk in glass lined
tank cars, trucks, and wagons, of which they were the origi-
nators and inventors. They adopted this method of trans-
portation August 1, 1921, two years before any other com-
pany, and were the first dairy company to install the most
highly perfected and enlarged powdered milk machine ever
open to public inspection at one of its branch plants, and the
first dairy company in this city to install the Meyer-Dumor
automatic bottle washing machine, guaranteed by the manu-
tacturers to thoroughly clean and sterilize 999 bottles in every
