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ened condensed milk was manufactured and sold under the 
famous Eagle Brand at Gail Borden’s first factory at Wolcott- 
ville, Connecticut.+ The details of the process have since been 
improved and modified, and the products perfected. The de- 
scendant of Gail Borden’s venture is the present Borden’s Milk 
Company, to-day one of the largest industrial concerns in the 
United States and Canada.t 
David Page, the general agent of Gail Borden, visited his 
brother, Charles A. Page, then United States consul at Ziirich, 
Switzerland, in the early sixties. Recognizing that Switzer- 
land, on account of its climate, its aromatic pastures and the 
large milk production, offered natural advantages for the 
manufacture of condensed milk, he organized a company with 
_ 150,000 francs capital, chiefly from Swiss and English sources, 
in. 1861, and erected a factory at Cham on the Lake of Zug. 
The first factory was a simple rough board shack of American 
pioneer style. It had a precarious existence for the first few 
years. But when once a market was established, the Anglo- 
Swiss Condensed Milk Company prospered rapidly. New fac- 
tories were established in different parts of the country dur- 
ing the seventies, eighties and nineties. New companies were 
founded, many of which failed or were in time absorbed by 
the few large surviving concerns. From the beginning almost 
the entire output of the Swiss factories had to be exported, as 
there was practically no home market. Until very recently 
little condensed milk was consumed in Switzerland. Thus of 
necessity the market had to be sought in the wide world. For 
this reason as well as because of the quality of the products, 
Swiss condensed milk acquired a leading position in the world 
markets, which were chiefly England, British colonies in Asia 
and Africa, and tropical countries generally. The chief com- 
petitor of the Anglo-Swiss Company in the European field 
70. F. Hunziker. 
tIn 1919 the company operated thirty-one complete condensaries, 
eleven feeders, eleven tin can manufacturing shops, two confectionery 
plants, two malted milk plants, and two dry milk plants. In addition to 
these its subsidiary, the Bordens Farm Products Company, Inc., is sup- 
plying large proportions of the fresh milk consumption in New York 
city, Chicago and Montreal, and in this connection is operating eight 
certified milk farms, 156 country bottling plants, and receiving stations, 
70 city pasteurizing plants and distributing branches. (The Bordens 
Compariy First Annual Report for the year 1919). 
