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Mauthe’s Dairy:
Bringing History to the Home Front ARTICLE BY BRANDI PERRY, PHOTOS BY DORI LOWE Located in southern Pike County, in the small town of Progress, Mississippi, sits a family dairy farm called Mauthe’s Dairy. Jamie and Kenny Mauthe have called this farm home for several years now, and even though it looks like any other dairy in south Mississippi, what the Mauthes are doing with their milk products is not seen anywhere else in the south.
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Dairy farming is nothing new for the Mauthe family. Kenny, a third-generation farmer, just followed in his family’s footsteps. His grandfather started milking cows in the 1930s in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans and delivered the milk door to door. In the 1950s, when the city started expanding and the 9th Ward
