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upon the good will you have toward them and the spirit with 

 which you enter into the work. 



Mr. Giles: We have with us j\[r. Sutton, who is the President 

 of the National Ice Cream Association, ixho of our state asso- 

 ciation. Mr. Sutton will speak to you for a few^ minutes. 



Mr. Suttox : I came here as a guest and your secretary 

 asked me to say a few words. 1 am very much pleased 

 to see such a gathering of representative men of the dairy 

 Lusiuess at this convention. Jn listening to Prof. Van Pelt and 

 the questions which you asked him, I realized the intense interest 

 that is manifested here. We as ice cream manufacturers depend 

 entirely upon you for tlie product that we are to make ice cream 

 from. With good materials we can make good ice cream, our 

 markets will broaden and we will use more milk and cream. We 

 as manufacturers of the State and Xatioual Associations, are 

 working along the same lines that you are, and have been for 

 years trying to encourage those of wdiom we buy to make good 

 clean products for us to manufacture our goods from. We have 

 been quite successful in some sections ; in others it has been some- 

 what harder. But the goods that we get to-day are very different 

 from what we got a few years ago. That is due to meetings just 

 like you are having here, to enlighten, to educate, to talk over 

 business affairs and listening to papers on the production of clean 

 milk, the elimination of bacteria, how to improve the conditions 

 of vour barns and utensils in taking and handlino; milk. 



The ice cream industry is perhaps much larger than the nuijority 

 of you realize. In the United States last year there were pro- 

 duced 138,000,000 gallons of ice cream, nearly a gallon and a half 

 per capita. The business has grown with leaps and bounds, since 

 it has been possible for us to produce a clean product and open 

 our doors and admit the public, take them into our confidence 

 and show them that we are really making a wholesome ice cream. 

 It all has come back to you; we have to depend upon you for those 

 products. A great many men in the l)usiness own and operate 

 model farms. They own creameries which are models, from which 

 they put out a product in the vvvy best knowm way, and it goes to 

 their factories and is made up into ice cream. It cannot help but 

 be guaranteed to be right, and goes out to man, woman and child 



