Casper Jaggi by Jerry Apps

Author:Jerry Apps
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Published: 2013-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

Frieda holding Fritz. For the first few years of his life, Fritz lived with his parents right upstairs from the cheese factory where his father, Casper, worked.

Casper with a truck filled with his Swiss cheese. What is the name for the round objects at the right? Why does Casper have them outdoors?

When Casper loaded a truck to haul cheese to market, Fritz would put stones in his wagon to pretend he was delivering cheese, too. But kids were expected to help out as they got older. Fritz began working in the cheese factory when he was just 6 or 7 years old. He was about the age Casper was when Casper started to learn cheese making from his father in Switzerland.

“One of the first jobs I had,” Fritz said, “was watching the thermometer near the copper cheese kettle as the cheese was cooking. If the temperature in the copper cheese kettle went over 40 degrees C [104 degrees F] the cheese would burn. The result would be a low-grade cheese that sold at a lesser price.”

As a little boy, Fritz washed lots of cheese equipment just as Casper had done for his father. It all had to be cleaned every day. Fritz took the milk cans and whey pumps apart and washed them until they sparkled. He helped clean the stainless-steel pipes and the machine that washed the 10-gallon milk cans.

Everything had to be spotlessly clean in a cheese factory. State inspectors would come by without warning to make sure everything was in tip-top shape. Casper was proud of his factory. He called it a “100 percent plant.” This was because he always passed state inspections with a 100 percent perfect score for cleanliness.

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