VOA慢速英語:冰淇淋使游客們的馬里蘭農(nóng)場之旅變得甜蜜（中文導(dǎo)讀）

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中文導(dǎo)讀：美國人愛吃冰淇淋，去馬里蘭農(nóng)場的人們可以參觀乳牛場，穿過整個州去獲得新鮮的冰淇淋，并享受周圍的環(huán)境。每年夏天這里都?xì)g迎游客穿過馬里蘭州的乳牛場，來品嘗冰淇淋。這條穿越整個州的冰淇淋小道使得人們越來越關(guān)注這個州的乳牛場，給這個州帶來了經(jīng)濟(jì)效益。同時(shí)給人們帶來了非凡的農(nóng)場經(jīng)歷。
Americans love to eat ice cream, a milk and sugarbased treat. People Maryland can visit dairy farms across the state to getfresh ice cream and enjoy the surroundings. Christopher Cruise tells us thestory of the Maryland ice cream trail.

Dairy farms across Maryland welcome visitors to eat ice cream everysummer.

Jim Brown is visiting the Rocky Point Creamery, in Frederick County,Maryland -- near the state of Pennsylvania.

“My favorite is chocolate. We love the ice cream here. We drove all the wayfrom 15 miles ((24 kilometers)) away to come to this ice cream.”

Mr. Brown and his family visit the creamery every summer.

“We got one, two, three, four, seven of us here today riding, and we had a bigbreakfast, and this seems like a perfect way to end it.”

The Rocky Point Creamery is one of eight dairies on Maryland’s Ice CreamTrail. The trail is more than 460 kilometers long.

Ice Cream Trail 'Helps Our Business'

Buddy Hance is the state’s agriculture secretary. He says the Ice Cream Trailbrings valuable attention to the state’s dairy farms.

“We created the Maryland Ice Cream Trail about three years ago and we didthat to increase the public’s awareness of the opportunities of the dairyindustry all over Maryland. We have about 476 dairy farms, and, last year,those farms generated about 201 million dollars in gross revenue.”

Each of the 200 cows at Rocky Point Creamery produces 40 liters of milk aday. Some of it is used to make the farm’s 70 different kinds of ice cream.Chuck Fry’s family has operated the farm since 1883.

“The ice cream trail can really help our business. It is a great way for us dairyfarmers kind of to stick together and enhance, and show the world what wedo.”

Alicia Weiner drove a long way to eat ice cream.

“We drove out here from DC. It’s just a beautiful drive, and we have our icecream. We walk here around the farm.”

Ms. Weiner says her son learned about dairy farms during the visit.

“He wanted to know all about milking cows before and where milk came from.”

Teaching the Farm Experience

Another dairy farm on the trail -- The South Mountain Creamery -- makes 40different kinds of ice cream. Visitors can watch cows being milked, and feedyoung cows with a bottle. Randy Sowers owns the farm. He says people lovefeeding the young cows.

“Those draw people in. People like to do it. Kids love it. Four o’clock every daywe are busy. We have a lot of people here to feed calves.”

Jim Brown says he and his family plan to see more of the dairy farms onMaryland’s Ice Cream Trail.

“All the places seem like great places. So we will definitely be riding out to go to see some of these places and try ice cream everywhere.”

Alicia Weiner plans to do the same.

“This is the first one we’ve tried. So I think this summer we will do a fewmore.”

The Maryland Ice Cream Trail is open from May to the middle of September.

I’m Christopher Cruise.