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ceived with thanks, and a pleasant invitation to call again. An- 

 other advantage of the score card is the greater simplicity of regu- 

 lations resulting from its use. Instead of burdening the farmer 

 with remembering a lot of rules, instead of irritating him with a 

 multiplicity of "Thou shalt nots," we can have this sim.ple rule: 

 any dairy scoring below a certain point, say, for instance, 50, will 

 be regarded as unsanitary, and its product will be rejected by the 

 city health officer. The score card, instead of drawing an unex- 

 plained, mysterious dead line, constantly holds out a temptation 

 to progress. A Tennessee inspector told me recently of a pro- 

 ducer, saying to him : "My score is 60, but it will be 65 the next 

 time you visit me, for I see where, without much trouble, I can 

 gain 5 points.'- 



From the official side, the score card is valuable, because it 

 furnishes a good record of the work of the inspector. It requires 

 a written statement of his judgment in such a way as tends to 

 thoroughness, fairness and impartiality ; and the file of these cards 

 has no superior as an office history of the work of the inspection 

 department. 



HIGHER IDEALS IN DAIRYING. 



(By Dr. D. F. Luckey, State Veterinarian.) 



People are beginning to recognize the fact that agriculture is 

 a big, broad, deep science. Its pursuit requires skill, common 

 sense and energy, but in dairying there is a greater latitude for 

 the use of brains than in any other department. Of all the special 

 branches of agriculture, dairying is the most complex. A success- 

 ful dairyman must be a judge of real estate in order to strike a 

 bargain in purchasing his farm. He must be a judge of the dairy 

 cow in order to intelligently select his stock. He should have soma 

 knowledge of horses, hogs and sheep, all of which are often profita- 

 ble accessories to the dairy farm. He must understand hygiene, in 

 order to keep his cows in a high state of health. He must under- 

 stand pedigrees and the principles of breeding, in order to propa- 

 gate a profitable herd. He must understand the chemistry of the 

 soil, in order to properly rotate his crops and keep up the soil fer- 

 tility. He must understand seed selection and crop cultivation. 

 He must understand animal nature, in order to coax his cows into 

 their best efforts, and human nature, in order to get his hired help 

 to perform regularly, faithfully and efficiently the work about the 



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