The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-06-12
A VERY IMPORTANT.
AID TO DAIRYINC
6,OOO,OO0,0O0 Pounds of Milk
Used Annually In Popular
Food Product
LARGE PER CAPITA USE
The Industry Uses Most Milk
and Cream During High
Producing Season

"Few of our dairy farmers real
ize how much of the milk they pro-
duce goes into the manufacture OF
ice cream, and only a few of the
millions of consumers of ice cream
realize the magnitude of the indus
try" said o. E. Reed, chief of the
Bureau of Dairy Industry, U. S. de-
partment of agriculture, speaking
over the radio from Washington, D.
C. ut is true, nevertheless" he
said, that about six billion pounds
of milk are utilized in the United
States in the commercial manufac-
ture of this food, which was once
regarded as a luxury but which now
holds a we'll established place in
the American diet" The federal
dairy chiefs address opened an ed
ucational program covering the GEN.
trail states sponsored jointly by The
National Dairy Council and The
International Association of ice
Cream Manufacturers. His subject
was 1.-THE Relation of the Ice Cream
Industry to the Dairy Farmer"
There are about 1000 ice cream
factories in the United States to-
day, and in 1928 they manufactured
more than one and three-fourths
billion pounds, or about 348 million
gallons, of ice cream" said Mr..
Reed. "These manufacturers re-
quired about six billion pounds of
milk, or the product Of about one
and a third million dairy cows. In
to the product went 200 million
pounds of butterfat; 243 million
pounds of sugar; 174 million pounds
of milk solids other than butterfat;
and million pounds of food gela-
tin.
1.-THE quantity of dairy products
used in the manufacture of ice
cream in the United States, calcu-
lated in terms of whole milk, is al
most equal to the quantity used in
the manufacture of cheese, and is
greater than the quantity used in
the manufacture of condensed and
evaporated milk.
"Tce cream is an American insti-
tuition. The making of ice cream,
as an industry, had its beginning
ming about the time of the Revolu-
ton, it is said. The first newspaper
advertisement offering ice cream
for sale seems to have been one
which appeared in The New York
Gazette of May 10, TIT. One story
says that Dolly Madison, the popu-
lar first 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 gives to Mrs
Alexander Hamilton, wife of the
financial genius who so greatly aid
ed George Washington in firmly
establishing the republic, the credit
for having been the first to serve
ice cream at a notable social func-
ton. Whoever it was who intro
duced ice cream to us, he started
an industry which has grown in i'm
portance.
Back in the day when everybody
kept a COW, and mother churned
the butter, baked the bread, and did
the canning and preserving, we
made ice cream on the back porch
in the home freezer" said Mr.. Reed.
"But just as the making of butter,
and bread and the canning of fruits
have largely passed from the home
to the factory, so has the manufac-
ture of ice cream. Today the max
ing of ice cream is one of America
important industries.
1--WE eat more ice cream today
than we did when it was made at
home. The per capita consumption
in 1905 was 1.04 gallons, and in 1925
it was 90 gallons, or nearly three
times as much. In 1927 the con-
sumption in 10 of the states was
more than 2.9 gallons per person.
In three of the states-Pennsylva
an, California and New Jersey-the
per capita consumption was 49S,
4.57 and 4.24 gallons respectively
which was 33 to 10 per cent greater
than the average for the country
The consumption of ice cream has
been increasing steadily. Any in
crease means that the dairy farmer
has larger outlet for the product of
his industry, and that the public
enjoys in greater measure, those
benefits which accompany consump-
ton of sufficient quantities of nour-
ishing, satisfying, and healthful
foods-in the list of which foods
dairy products stand so very high.
"Ice cream is no longer looked
upon as a CONNECTION or a luxury