FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VI 427 



CREAMERY SCORE CARD. 



Early in the year 1913, Prof. M. Mortenson of the Dairy Depart- 

 ment at Ames offered prizes for the best kept creamery premises 

 with a view to creating an interest in better creamery buildings and 

 surroundings. The contest aroused considerable rivalry and the 

 results were such as justified an expansion of his idea. 



At the semi-annual meeting of inspectors of this department in 

 May, 1914, Prof. Mortensen appeared and presented his plan with 

 the result that a committee of our inspectors met with Prof. Morten- 

 sen and a creamery score card was designed to be used in grading 

 the various creameries according to the condition of the plant and 

 equipment. Prof. Mortensen again provided prizes for the highest 

 scoring plant and our creamery inspectors are able to fill out a score 

 card of the building and grounds while making the regular sanitary 

 inspection of the plant and at the end of the year the score cards 

 will be judged by a committee to determine the winner of the prizes. 



It has long been acknowledged that a clean building with well 

 kept grounds had a good effect on the producer of the raw material 

 and a creamery plant in which the producers take pride acts as 

 a stimulant to produce a superior quality of milk or cream. There 

 are many creameries throughout the state that will pass inspection 

 under the law and yet may be greatly improved by a little addi- 

 tional care on the part of the buttermaker or Board of Directors. 

 Little attention has been paid to the beautification of the grounds 

 surrounding our industrial establishments but we hope in the future 

 to so educate the farming communities that they will make their 

 creamery grounds a place of beauty as well as a financial asset to 

 the community. 



FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 



Foot and mouth disease is an acute, highly communicable disease 

 confined to cloven-footed animals and ruminants and is character- 

 ized by an eruption of vesicles on the mucous membrane of the 

 mouth and on the skin between the toes and above the hoofs and 



