CONTROL OF THE PUBLIC MILK SUPPLY 



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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 Bureau of Animal Industry 

 Dairy Division 



SCORE CARD FOR CREAM 



Place 



Class. . . Exhibit No. 



Exhibitor 



Address 



(Signed) 



Judge. 



Date , 191 



The directions for scoring are the same as for milk. 



Measures of Success in Controlling the Milk Supply. The success 

 of the effort to control the production and sale of milk is measured in 

 three ways, namely: (1) by the decrease in infant mortality; (2) by the 

 increase in the consumption of milk; and (3) by the prosperity of the 

 dairy business. 



Infant Mortality and the Milk Supply. Undoubtedly the belief of 

 the medical profession that contaminated milk was largely responsible 

 for the high infant mortality of the summer months started the first 

 comprehensive campaigns to improve milk supplies. In the seventies 

 there was believed to be a direct causal relationship between the high air 

 temperatures and the increased death rate of children in summer, but 

 with the development of bacteriology less importance came to be attached 

 to the effect of heat per se and much more to infections caused by slightly 

 spoiled foods. When health departments began to publish the results 



