Over two hundred cheese-makers regularly attended the Little Falls cheese market on Ann Street, where brisk competition often brought the highest prices. Most cheese factories were in Herkimer County north of the Mohawk River, and the trade extended far beyond making cheese itself. Local companies grew by supplying farmers and factories with the materials and equipment needed for dairying and cheese production. On Albany Street, the Burrell and Whitman factory, the forerunner of Feldmeier Corporation, produced or sold nearly everything required for cheese-making, including vats for fresh milk, boilers, cheesecloth, wooden hoops, curd knives, cheese presses, and wooden shipping boxes, and after 1881 it also handled sales for Hansen's commercial Rennet Extract, manufactured locally. David H. Burrell and his brother Edward promoted modern farming practices to improve dairying through catalogs that included guidance on dairy practices, breeding, and barns, and they introduced silos for year-round feed to support steady milk production. The company's work to develop pasteurization methods, cream separator, and other dairy equipment helped farmers standardize and improve the high quality of their dairy products. In the 1920s, paved farm roads in Herkimer County, along with newly invented milk trucks made by Cherry-Burrell in Little Falls and refrigerated railroad cars, allowed fresh milk to be shipped directly from local farms to expanding metropolitan markets in the Northeast, where it brought higher profits than cheese. Gradually, local farmers shifted all production to fresh milk, and today Herkimer County dairy farmers are among the top ten milk-producing counties for the New York City - New Jersey Milkshed.