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months. To that I would always advise adding 500 pounds more to 

 provide for the waste and for household uses. That means 1,000 

 pounds per cow on a basis of a twenty-cow dairy, or ten tons for 

 twenty cows. I want to say that the cost of harvesting that ice 

 need not exceed $1 per ton, and if you cut it yourself you won't 

 have to pay out more than 3 5c or 50c per ton. If you store ten 

 tons of ice costing $10, and it is possible to increase the revenue 

 5c per pound on an average production of 150 pounds per year, you 

 would increase the revenue per cow $7.50, or for twenty cows, $150 — ■ 

 with an outlay of $10. 



What I have said along this line has been worked out and it can 

 be worked out I believe here. I want to submit for your consid- 

 eration, if that is not the easiest and best way we can accomplish 

 the results we are after. 



I am so thoroughly convinced myself of the possibilities along 

 this line that I would not have felt that I had done my duty if I 

 hadn't outlined this plan briefly. I know how a good many of you 

 feel; that it may work out in some places, but it won't work out 

 here. But I believe it will. If you want to call upon us at any 

 time, you will find our department ready to assist you. I thank you. 



Mr. Shoemaker: I know every member of this association will 

 learn with regret that Prof. Mortensen is very seriously ill, havins: 

 l)een operated upon for appendicitis. He was to have been with 

 lis tonight. He has sent his paper and I will ask Mr. Ross to read 

 it. 



ICE CREAM MAKING AND ITS RELATION TO THE CREAMERY. 

 Prof. M. Moetenson, Aimes, Iowa. 



About fifteen years ago it was generally considered that the ice cream 

 business was more su'table for the peanut stand than for the creamery, but 

 the industry has rapidly advanced until we, today, in the state of Iowa 

 are manufacturing not less than 3,000,000 gallons of ice cream an- 

 nually. If each gallon of ice cream contains nine-tenths of a pound 

 of butterfat, then 2,700,000 pounds of butterfat, or 1.23^/- of the 

 total amount of butterfat produced by our Iowa cows, is converted 

 into ice cream. 



Is it possible that this industry will develop to any greater extent? 

 The production of 3,000,000 gallons of ice cream in our state means 

 that twice a month each man, woman and child in the state of 

 Iowa will have a dish of ice cream. There are some people that will 

 average a dish daily; some perhaps even more. There must be some 

 who are not receiving their full proportion. Who are these people? 

 Are they the people of the cities? Are they the people of the smaller 

 towns? Are they the college students? No, they are the farmers, 

 their wives and children. They constitute the wealthiest class of 

 people in our state. They are the people who supply the food for 

 the people of our state; not only for the people of our state, but for 



