Hiland
Dairy
Kentucky Post, Thursday, 15 April 1909, page 5
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Kentucky Post, Sunday, 8 November 1925, page 2
Hiland Dairy Co Exercises Utmost Care
George B Moock, manager of the Hiland Dairy Co. of Newport,
became acquainted with dairying at the age of 13. During the early part of that
year his father, Philip Moock purchased 22 head of cattle and started a dairy
farm on the Alexandria pike two miles south of Newport. From that modest
beginning the Hiland Dairy Co has grown until it now handles the milk output of
245 dairy farms in Campbell Co. When a youth George could always be found
working about the farm. He was intensely interested in the industry and in 1892
became his father's partner in the Hiland Dairy, as it was then known. He
assumed full control of the farm in 1902.
In April 1918, a fire swept the Hiland Dairy. Not one of the 293 cows and five calves in the sheds were lost. Until 1905, the Hiland Dairy produced all of its own milk. After that year it started to buy milk from nearby dairy farms and in 1911 a fleet of trucks was purchased to bring the milk to Hiland Dairy. Moock's next step was to interest Campbell co farmers in producing high grade milk from pure bred stress Tubercular teste4d cows on 245 Campbell co farms supply the milk, which is certified and inspected at the Hiland Dairy farm.
The Hiland Dairy Co with George B Moock as manager, was incorporated May 4, 1918. Moock was born in Campbell Co in 1871. He had been active in many "pure milk" movements in the county and recently fostered the movement to establish the Campbell and Kenton Medical Milk Commission which was formed in May 1925. Of the 1500 herds in Campbell co Moock says, only two have been awarded the accredited certificate from the US Department of Agriculture, the Hiland dairy herd being one of the two. The Hiland Dairy is the only certified dairy in northern Kentucky, Moock says.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 21 December 1927, page 1
Firemen were called to the warehouse and garage of the Hiland Dairy Co, Orchard st. between Seventh and Eighth streets, Newport, when an auto caught fire by some unknown cause. The truck was damaged to the extent of $100.
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The Kentucky Post, Saturday, 20 June 1931, page 2
ADDS MACHINES
Automatic bottle washing machine is one of the many improvements
added to the Hiland Dairy Co. 324 E Fourth St. Newport. The bottles are washing
and sterilized in this machine and never are touched by hand from the time they
are placed in the machine until after they are cleaned and filled with milk and
sealed.
Health officers of Kenton and Campbell counties and Cincinnati were the guests Thursday of George Moock, manager of the Hiland Dairy. An inspection of the plane was made and a dinner followed. L J Crawford, Newport attorney was toastmaster and addresses were made my Judge A M Caldwell of Circuit Court. Among those attended were; Dr. John Todd, Newport health officer, Dr. C W Shaw, Campbell Co health officer; Maj. N S Dowd, Ft Thomas military post; Capt. Alfred Field, Ft Thomas military post; Henry Feldman, president of the Feldman Dairy Co. F J Bahl, president of the Hiland Dairy Co.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 21 March 1935, page 2
Half Century in Business Brings Memories to Moock
It was 51 years ago on April 1 when George B Moock, then a frail 13 year old boy climbed into a milk wagon and called "gid-dup" to his hore and started his journey to Newport to deliver milk for his father. Little did he realize that his life time would be devoted to the production and distribution of milk in Campbell county. Little did his dream of the vast expansion of his dad's small dairy farm to one of the most complete and elaborate milk and dairy distribution systems in northern Kentucky and southern Ohio.
Ever since April 1, 1884, on which date his father, Philip Moock, purchased a small dairy farm on Alexandria pike opposite the present day Evergreen cemetery, the entire life of Col. Moock has been devoted to the production of milk and dairy products. It was in May 1895 that Col. Moock and his father moved their business to the Three Mile Creek road, where Col. Moock has lived for the past 40 years. When Col. Moock was 21 years old, he was made a partner in the business by his father.
In 1911 (actually 1910) his father died, leaving him sole owner of the milk business. He survived a 1918 fire and organized the Hiland Dairy Co, of which for years he was president and sole stockholder. The Hiland company was established in 1920 at 324 E Fourth street where Col. Moock has managed and maintained an efficient plant for the treatment and distribution of dairy products.