well, still he expected to sell the animals and make most of his 

 profits by such sales. Out of five animals sold to New Zealand 

 at $500 each, three were rejected because found by testing to be 

 tuberculous. He immediately went to work, and by the tubercu- 

 lin test began the weeding-out process, thinking that it would pay 

 him to create a herd free from tuberculosis. When I was work- 

 ing on the herd he was losing four or five of his best cows every 

 year with tuberculosis in different forms. It would doubtless have 

 been to his financial interest to have started out with the tuberculin 

 test in making his original purchases. 



Professor Herbert A. Hopper : In answer to the question that 

 Dr. Fleischner raised with reference to the discouraging features, 

 I wish to say that I do not look at it as discouraging. In time the 

 customer will have to come to pay the price that the milk is worth, 

 but just at the present time I hope that the producers will not 

 stand in the way of progress and ask for a higher price. These 

 things always work out right, and we will not have a good milk 

 supply until the people are willing to pay for it. 



THE USE OF THE SCORE CARD IN DAIRY INSPECTION. 



(By Chester Roadhouse, D. V. M.) 



A question which is important to organizations in milk improve- 

 ment work is how can the conditions under which milk is pro- 

 duced be best reported, and which method is the most thorough in 

 reporting these conditions? 



In the general milk improvement work by municipal boards of 

 health which has developed in the large cities throughout the 

 United States, it has been found that by the use of the score card 

 a rating can be given each dairy and that with the score card the 

 inspector can make a more perfect study of conditions at any 

 dairy. Until the appearance of the score card little effort was 

 made to classify the many details which have to do with the 

 purity and wholesomeness of milk. The many items requiring 

 attention are now listed ; and, still better, they are given numerical 

 values in the score card. By the use of the score card a competent 

 inspector is able to designate the character of defects at the dairy, 

 and also he can indicate the seriousness of such defects. The 

 great advantage is that it is educational and that it shows the 

 conditions in terms that the dairyman with little study can under- 

 sand. 



Dr. Woodward, Health Officer of the District of Columbia, was 

 the first to introduce the score-card system of reporting on dairies. 

 A little later, in 1906, Prof. R. A. Pearson of Cornell University 

 introduced a score card for the same purpose. The United States 

 Department of Agriculture then took up the work with the hope of 

 extending the use of the score card and thereby a more thorough 

 inspection. After three years' work, scoring several thousand 

 dairies in all parts of the country, the department adopted a score 

 card, somewhat modified from the ones previously introduced, and 

 which is now in use in over one hundred cities and towns in this 

 country. 



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