412 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



manufacturer to increase his revenues by considering the matter 

 of where the larger percentages of profit from the manufacture 

 of the products go, and what effect it would have upon the con- 

 sumption to raise or lower his price to the retailer. 



As before stated, the ice cream output in this state fell short about 

 500,000 gallons, the output for the entire year being in the neigh- 

 borhood of 2,500,000 gallons. 



Due to the premium paid for butter fat in sweet cream for ice 

 cream making purposes, this output means a great deal to the dairy 

 farmers in the state who are supplying this trade. From reports 

 received, about 1,560,000 pounds of butter fat must have been used 

 in the manufacture of ice cream or about one pound of butter fat 

 from every cow in the state was used for ice cream making pur- 

 poses. The average premium paid for butter fat in sweet cream for 

 ice cream purposes was about 10c. Therefore, the producer in this 

 state received 10c more for each cow he milked last year because of 

 the ice cream industry. These figures are not very startling but 

 when considered as a whole over $15,000 does not seem to be a very 

 trifiing revenue which was added to the income of the producers of 

 the state because of the development of the ice cream industry. We 

 trust that another year will show even greater returns. 



We are gratified to be able to say in this report that the Supreme 

 Court of this state saw fit to reverse the decision of Judge Mc- 

 Henry, which declared the law enacted about three years and a 

 half ago, setting forth a standard for ice cream, unconstitutional. 

 We believe that the language used in handing down the reversal 

 of this decision is sufficiently plain so that no one need question 

 but what, in the minds of those on the bench, a state clearly has 

 a right to establish for itself standards by which those manufactur- 

 ing food products shall be governed. In this state, ice cream is 

 considered one of these products. 



We are pleased to state that during the past year, such gross 

 violations of the ice cream law have not come to the notice of the 

 department as did last year. 



We wish to again call your attention to the fact that more care- 

 ful attention should be paid in the factory to the details in making 

 up batches. The time has long since passed when ice cream can be 

 made by guess. Competition is too keen, the trade too critical, and 

 the risk too great to still employ guess methods. We want to urge 

 upon the manufacturer, the necessity of the use of the Babcock 



