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CITY MILK SUPPLY 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY, 



DAIRY DIVISION. 



SANITARY INSPECTION OF DAIRY FARMS. 



SCORE OARD. 



Indorsed by the Official Dairy Instructors' Association. 



Owner or lessee of farm 



P. O. address .. State 



Total number of cows ,_._. Number milking 



Gallons of milk produced daily . . 



Product is sold by producer in families, hotels, restaurants, stores. 



to - dealer. 



For milk supply of r . . - - 



Permit No. Date of inspection , 191 



REMARKS : 



(Signed} 



Inspector. 



In practice the score card has served several purposes. In the first 

 place, it has been an aid to inspectors in their work, for on filling out all 

 its items they could be sure that no important points of inspection had 

 been overlooked while by comparing the scores the relative merits of 

 dairy farms could be judged; also, by reflecting on the mental impressions 

 made by the farms and on the scores a check on both could be had so 

 that the opinions that the inspectors had of the several dairies in their 

 districts was less likely to be biased, either by the personal impression 

 made by the dairyman or by the scores themselves. Besides, the cards 

 served as guides in instructing dairymen on the importance of cleanliness 

 in handling milk; so for this, and other reasons it is advisable to leave a 

 carbon copy of the score at the farm. Moreover, employers of several 

 inspectors could check the work of their staffs by transferring their men 

 from one district to another and comparing the scores turned in. Finally, 

 the score cards are conveniently filed for reference. 



It should be understood that the figures obtained by scoring are not 

 an exact mathematical expression of the sanitary rating of the farm. 



