REPORT OF STAT?: DAIRY INSPECTOR. 39 



lightening the reader as to the responsibiHties of the pubHc as 

 well as of the producer of milk. The articles include "The 

 Covered Milk Pail;" "Milk at any Price;" "The Retailer and 

 Dirty Milk;" "Why Test Dairy Cows?" -Clean Milk." 



There is another side of inspection that is perhaps too often 

 overlooked, — the educational side for the farmer and his awak- 

 ening to the need of better cows, better feeding and better man- 

 agement of the dairy. Since May ist I have visited 70 milk 

 producing farms in different sections of the State, and in visit- 

 ing these different dairy farmers, changes in their present 

 systems have been very often recommended, and those usually 

 tend to make the milk of better quality. I have not always been 

 a welcome visitor, for like all progressive movements, inspec- 

 tion has its enemies. Many of these so-called enemies are 

 made so, not through any personal grievances but through a 

 lack of understanding of what it is desired to accomplish. The 

 farmer has a mistaken idea that the Inspector is his enemy, but 

 when he understands the advantages that would come to him 

 by improving the quality of his milk and thereby maintaining a 

 good reputation, his prejudices are overcome to a large extent. 



It is a comparatively easy task to pick out the defects on the 

 average dairy farm and criticise them, but little good results. A 

 dairyman has a right to ask why and how an improvement is 

 to be made, and to this end good results have been obtained 

 when he can be enlightened. The score card is not always prac- 

 tical, but when possible it has been used to great advantage. 



To call attention to a few details which before seemed to be 

 of minor importance, often is of great benefit to the farmer. 

 Attention to details is a reqviisite in the dairy business, for this 

 brings increased profit, a better understanding of the business, 

 and a consequent sanitary improvement. The hardest dairy- 

 man to get to improve is the one whose profits are least. 



The object of inspection is not to criticise but to help when 

 possible, and it is with satisfaction that I find that many of the 

 dairymen look at this matter in the same light, thus making 

 my calls very pleasant. On a large percentage of the dairy 

 farms the buildings contain what is generally termed the old 

 fashioned tie-up, with no special reference to sunlight, venti- 

 lation or manure disposal. And too often the details of the 

 dairy barn are left to hired help who are slack and uninterested. 



