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Roxboro Dairy Quail Roost Farm milk cap - Rougemont NC North Carolina Person gem For Sale
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Roxboro Dairy Quail Roost Farm milk cap - Rougemont NC North Carolina Person gem:
$400.00
As shown, only one to offer - a rare Roxboro Dairy Products Quail Roost Farm guernsey milk bottle cap lid dairy top - Rougemont NC Durham Person County North Carolina N.C. origin - not shown on lid. Research below shows origin of cap. 1 5/8". Shows staining. Free Postage.
George Watts Hill was somewhat different, though, in that he took a serious interest in farming, particularly the acquisition of prize dairy cattle. His wife, who had never liked Harwood Hall, took to raising and training horses. Hunters, and jumpers and steeplechasers were bred trained, shown and raced at Quail Roost Stables. The Hills acquired additional land - several thousand acres. (Some of this would eventually become part of NC State's Hill Forest.)
By 1938, the Hills had moved to Quail Roost full-time, after completion of their Colonial Revival home on the hill overlooking the former lodge. By the 1940s the farm was acknowledged to be one of the premier Guernsey herds in the world. At its peak, the farm was comprised of 1800 acres and had 300 "Golden Guernsey" cattle. The primary sire of the herd, High Point Prince Maxim (who would later be memorialized with a stone marker) had a birthday party which was covered by Life Magazine. During these decades, the Quail Roost Maxim sale was one of the top ten cattle sales in the country. "Quail Roost Nobel Primrose - Grand Champion of the 1948 Dairy Show" had fetched $17,000 at sale in 1945.
Watts Hill began bottling milk from his cows, initially using YE Smith'sLong Meadow Dairyand when it "burned up", Watts Hill stated that purchased the thenPet Milk Companyon James St (see that post for my confusion on ownership of that concern during this period.) Hill's Guernsey cattle were prized because of the high fat content of their milk - 4.5 to 4.9% butterfat. George's father, JS Hill, kept some of the Guernsey cattle on a farm at the location of the current Crosdaile Country Club.
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