Ag Symposium I
f
Set For June 14
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture (PDA) has sched
uled its Ag Research Symposium
Thursday, June 14, here at the
Capitol Complex.
The symposium, which in
cludes information on export op
portunities, livestock and plant
research, and information for a
wide variety of producers, is
scheduled from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
at the Ryan Building, Room 205,
in the complex.
Twenty-one research projects
will be highlighted at the sympo
sium. For more information, con
tact PDA’s office of the secretary,
(717)772-2853.
Ice Cream Important To America
✓ Commercial production of ice cream began in Baltimore, Mary
land, in 1851, by Mr. Jacob Fussell, now known as the father of the
American ice cream industry.
✓ Ice cream was invented in China in about 200 B.C. when a soft
milk and rice mixture was further solidified by packing it in snow.
✓ In 1921, the commissioner of Ellis Island made the decision to
treat all incoming immigrants to a taste of something truly American
by serving them ice cream as part of their first meal.
✓ National Ice Cream Month was designated by President Ronald
Reagan in 1984.
✓ More ice cream is consumed on Sunday than on any other day of
the week.
✓ Although chocolate and strawberry rank high as consumer favor
ites, vanilla still leads the way in ice cream sales. It accounts for 20
percent of all ice cream sales.
✓ Caramel ice cream is the fastest growing flavor nationally with
its volume production increasing 49 percent in 1998. Mocha/coffee is
also becoming more popular with sales up 15 percent since 1996.
✓ About 10 percent of the total milk produced in the U.S. is used in
ice cream products.
✓ Americans consume about 23 quarts on average per person per
year, which is more than is consumed in any other nation.
✓ It takes about seven quarts of milk to make a gallon of ice cream.
✓ About one quarter of the milk produced in Pennsylvania is made
into ice cream products.
✓ Air is added to convert the cream and sugar mixture into the
light and fluffy treat we call ice cream.
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Sundae On Tuesday At The C
MICHELLE RANCK
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Visitors to the capitol
building on a warm Tuesday
afternoon were treated to an ice
cream sundae or, more accu
rately, part of one at a June
Dairy Month kickoff event or
ganized by Pennsylvania’s dairy
promotion organizations.
The event, which began at
noon, drew a crowd as 126 gal
lons of Green’s vanilla ice cream
were stacked in a plastic recrea
tional pool.
Five gallons of Hershey’s choc
olate syrup and five gallons of
caramel syrup were topped off by
five gallons of chopped nuts from
Zimmerman’s Nut Company in
Harrisburg.
Whipped cream and a 12-inch
ball of cherries crowned the cre
ation.
According to Alexa A. Stoner,
industry relations specialist,
American Dairy Association/
Dairy Council Middle Atlantic
served more 1,300 people with
the help of 16 dairy princesses
and agriculture secretary Sam
Hayes to dish the ice cream.
This event was first for many
of the dairy princesses who have
been newly crowned. Dairy prin
cesses Katie Nailor, 18, Perry
County, and Sherry Plummer,
Jefferson County, helped to hand
Sixteen dairy princesses from across
Pennsylvania came to help serve the gen
erous scoops of ice cream.
out spoons and napkins to the
crowd.
“We came a long way to get
here, so I was hoping it would be
something like this,” said Plum
mer. “I was expecting lots of peo
ple and lots of ice cream, and
that’s what we got.”
Additionally the Lancaster
based Green’s sampled one of its
newest ice cream flavors. Cotton
Candy Confetti.
The American Dairy
Association/Dairy Council Mid
dle Atlantic, the American Dairy
Association and Dairy Council
Mid East, and the Pennsylvania
Dairy Promotion Program helped
organize the event.
Students of Colorful Future Day Care,
Harrisburg, found their way to the event
and their own bowls of ice cream.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 9,2001-A29
The finished product was
quickly dished out to 1,300
Crawford County
Dairy Princess Pag
eant, Twelve Apos
tles Lutheran
Church, Saeger
town, 8 p.m.
Third Annual Penn
sylvania Herb Festi
val, York Expo
Center, York, 9
a.m.-4 p.m.
Rodale Institute On
Marketing To
Demand: Meeting
The Needs of
Today’s Increasing
Aware Consumer,
Kutztown, (610)
683-8548.
Happ^atnersDay!
Washington County
Dairy Princess Pag
eant, Washington
County Fair
grounds, 7 p.m.
International Dwarf
Fruit Tree Associa
tion Summer Tour,
Hood River,
Oregon, (570) 837-
1551.
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