York County, Pennsylvania farm boys George and Bud Rutter, along with Will, who ran the family farm, caught the entrepreneurial spirit of the 1920s. With the thought of making a little money for themselves, the brothers ventured into the retail dairy business. They milked some 20 cows to produce their first 15 quarts of raw milk. Then they sold the milk door-to-door from their horse-drawn wagon for 8 cents a quart.

They christened their operation "Crystal Spring Dairy" after the cold spring on the farm which served as their first refrigeration. The farmland had been deeded to the family in 1747 by the descendants of William Penn and is today recognized as one of the oldest continually operated family farms in America.¹

¹Editors (1995).  This family dairy farm is 248 years old!  Farming 38 #4: 6-7.