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(4) health of employees and manner of milking; and (5) 

 the subsequent handling of the milk. A perfect score would 

 be five hundred points. In addition, the general sanitary 

 conditions are noted as good, medium, poor, etc. There 

 is also a provision for recording the quality of milk under 

 the heads of percentage of butter-fat, lactometer tests, 

 total solids, and solids not fats. It must be evident that 

 much of the value of such records will depend on the know- 

 ledge and judgment of the inspector and the thorough- 

 ness with which he does his work. It is also evident 

 that an undue importance is placed upon equipment 

 and too little value given to methods in most of the sys- 

 tems. 



The foregoing has reference only to the production 

 of milk in the dairies. Score cards should be used to 

 control conditions in milk depots, in city dairies, in 

 stores, and throughout the distributing system. Spe- 

 cial score cards have been devised to meet these varying 

 needs. 



The score-card system of dairy inspection has made 

 marked progress during the past few years. It is now in 

 use by about one hundred and fifty cities and large towns. 

 It has been formally introduced by state officers as a por- 

 tion of their system of inspection in fourteen states, and 

 at recent sessions of the legislatures in Idaho and Utah it 

 was adopted in state enactments. The recent milk act 

 passed by both houses of the Massachusetts legislature, but 

 vetoed by the governor, contained specific provisions for 

 the score-card system. Eighteen agricultural colleges give 

 instruction in the best methods of securing dairy market 

 milk through the score-card system of inspection. Eleven 

 large milk dealers use this system in the dairies from which 

 they buy their supplies. The method has been encouraged 

 by the Government and is now generally recognized in 

 dairy and medical literature. 



A few illustrative score cards are here shown: 



