FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VI 431 



Chicago, under the direction of the Dairy Division, Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, 

 February 15-24, 1906. The objects were, first, educational ; second, 

 to determine the possibilities in the handling and keeping of milk 

 and cream produced under sanitary conditions and kept cold ; and 

 third, to test a score card for rating fairly and accurately this 

 class of dairy products. ' ' 



It was deemed advisable to have but one class — raw milk at this 

 time, and to add at a later date pasteurized milk, and also a class 

 for cream both raw and pasteurized. 



Some objection has been made to this sort of an exhibit from the 

 fact that the samples submitted do not accurately represent the 

 milk offered for sale in a regular way, and that the milk men take 

 extra pains with this milk. This is ordinarily the case, but this is 

 an educational exhibit and is intended to show what can be done. 



The buttermaker who enters a tub of butter for the scoring con- 

 test does not take this butter from his regular churning, neither 

 does the exhibitor of dairy cattle, for a prize, lead his cow directly 

 from the pasture into the show ring. To those unfamiliar with 

 these exhibitions, it may seem that the score under the head of 

 "Visible dirt" is low, but it averages up well with other similar 

 exhibits, at other shows. The samples for the first three years 

 "^ere judged and plated for bacterial count on the fourth day after 

 being milked, and those for the current year were judged and 

 plated on the second day. 



