120 THE DAIRY INSPECTOR 



THE FAILURE OF SCORE CARDS 



Even a card like this is an utter failure. In 

 actual practice it has been used by some of the 

 most experienced dairy inspectors in America, 

 who not only could not agree sometimes within 

 ten points of each other, but also found that the 

 card did a great injustice to some farmers, because 

 it failed to agree with the sanitary character of 

 the milk produced. 



We must put the score card in the same class 

 with the strainer cloth. It is one of the most 

 dangerous instruments in the dairy business. The 

 score card above is shown mainly as a curiosity 

 and not because it should be used. Health au- 

 thorities are learning how to control milk without 

 the use of score cards. They are coming at last 

 to realize that milk consumers do not drink dairy 

 barns, but drink milk. They are beginning to 

 require only things of most sanitary importance 

 and not things which have no effect on the milk. 



NEW YORK CITY'S NEW MILK REGULATIONS 



The Department of Health of the City of New 

 York, after careful study of score cards, has de- 



