Show ICE CREAM MAINU FACTURE A GREAT FOOD utilizes six billion pounds of milk annually the product of 0 one and a third million cows few of our dairy farmers tari nera realize how much of the milk they produce goes into the manufacture of ice cream and only a few of the millions of consumers realize the magnitude of this great industry about 6 of milk are utilized annually in the commercial manufacture of this food which waa was once regarded as a luxury but Is now firmly established in the american diet there are about 4 ice cream factories in the united states they use the product of about 1 cows into the product went pounds of butter tat fat pounds of sugar pounds of milk solids and 5 pounds of food gelatin in terms of whole milk the quan city used in ice cream la greater than that used in the manufacture of con denied and evaporated milk and of course there are huge in vestments of high priced machinery and the services of a host of employ ees and technical experts in the bus iness men whose training and knowl edge render them fit to make a high class product it Is a fact but seldom known that ice fee cream la Is an american institution the making of ice cream as an in austry had its beginning about the time of the revolution the first newspaper carrying an ice cream ad verti offering ott ering that article tor for sale seems to have been the new york gazette issue of may 19 1777 one story says that dolly madison the first popular lady of the land when james madison was president was the first to introduce ice cream into the social events at the white house another story gives to mrs alexander hamilton wife of the tin fin ancial genius who ao so greatly aided george washington in firmly fishing the republic the creidt tor for having been the first to serve ice fee cream at a notable social function chover it was who introduced it the industry has grown to amazing proportions by now back in the days when everybody kept a cow mother churned the but ter mother baked the bread moth er did the canning and the preserving prea erving and if it we made ice cream mother made it on the back porch in the f tarn am lly fly freezer but today all thia this can be bought commercially canned cow package butter baker bakers s bread canned or bottled fruit and plenty of ice fee cream in any drug store soda fountain or delicatessen times have changed and commerce Is in every walk ot of lite it Is 1 claimed that the per capita consumption ot of ice cream tream wu WAS three gallons last year in california over 4 gallons a year tr dr E V mccollom of johna johns hop bins kins university one ot of our leading scientists in nutrition says there la Is no more attractive way ol 01 serving milk to your family than in good ice cream we have constantly ampha sized the importance ot of drinking more milk for the average amount consumed per person 1 Is still too low the serving ot of ice cream at the family table Is one of the easiest ways of getting milk into the diet ice cream la Is no longer looked upon as a luxury it has a definitely es place in the dairy industry and in the food habits of our people ice cream is generall regarded as wholesome and aa as essential in the american diet each state baa has put into its laws a definition tor for ice cream which sets a standard which the commercial manufacturer of ice cream must meet to not be liable to the law hence ice cream is usually of good quality and wholesome the use of milk in the manufacture of ice cream coming aa as it does in the beat heat of the summer months has a tendency to maintain the price of the farmers dairy products during that period U S dep dept t agriculture pasturing sheep on annual crops makes it possible to rotate more tre fre this lessens the danger of infection by stomach worms and oth er parasites |