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Our department has a modern lantern and equipment for 

 taking photographs and preparing slides for the same, thus giv- 

 ing us original views and enabling us to show conditions as they 

 actually exist. We believe there is no place for a muck-racker in 

 the discussion of the milk question, hence our slides are largely 

 made up, showing the best rather than the worst conditions. 

 This lantern we use in illustrated talks before women's clubs, 

 milk dealers' associations, doctors' societies, and chautauquas, as 

 well as farmers' institutes and dairy meetings. 



We also have been using during the last two years the score 

 card as recommended by the U. S. Dairy Division. This, we find 

 the only systematic way of securing a record of the comparative 

 conditions of the different dairies and in the hands of a com- 

 petent inspector, it is certainly the best and only method known 

 to us at this time. However, in the hands of an incompetent man, 

 this can do no good and in fact may do harm. You will thus see 

 that we are depending almost exclusively upon the education of 

 the dairymen, as well as the consumers, for the control and im- 

 provement of the milk supply and we are thoroughly convinced 

 that this is the proper system and that no permanent good can 

 be accomplished without the hearty and earnest co-operation of 

 all parties concerned, including the inspector, the producer of, 

 the dealer in, and the consumer of milk. The results obtained 

 cannot be measured accurately. We are convinced, however, 

 that there is a marked improvement in the milk supply of Iowa 

 during the last few years and the average score of the dairies is 

 increased with each inspection often quite materially and the 

 efficiency of the inspection can be best measured by the results 

 obtained in increasing the score of the dairies. 



The State Inspector was impressed recently with the efficiency 

 of milk inspection while in conversation with a milk man in 

 company with several others. He said this, "When you, with the 

 local inspector, first stopped me and examined the milk in my 

 wagon and said to me that my milk was dirty, I felt like climhing 

 out of my wagon and pounding you up, but I was very much 

 chagrined and mortified when you picked up a bottle of milk 

 and showed me the dirt and sediment in the bottom of it. I came 

 near falling out of ony wagon then, and I said to you that my 

 strainer must have been at fault, but you advised me that the 

 milk in Iowa on the whole would be better if we used no strainer 

 at all, and the right way to do was to keep the dirt out of the 



