table: showing bacterial curve or ice cream at various periods of storage: 
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well as the decrease of gas production in some and no noticeable difference in 
ethers, especially No. 1, which showed gas-producing bacteria during the entire 
period. With a decrease in the gas-producing bacteria after the first or second 
week there was also noted a marked decrease in the number of organisms, 
though in many cases these again increase. 
Fig. 1. — Variations in bacterial content during cold storage of four samples of commercial ice creams (Washington) . 
