86 THE MODERN MILK PROBLEM 



tion of milks according to laboratory tests, comple- 

 mented by instruction of the dairyman in the simple 

 methods by which he can keep his count down. The 

 use of a rational score card would make such instruction 

 definite and accurate, but his attention should be di- 

 rected through the rating according to his equipment 

 and stated methods to the desired final bacterial result. 

 While the part that has been played by the dairy 

 score card in the past in stimulating milk supervision 

 is not to be underrated, it must be said that the forms 

 of the card accepted hitherto represent a phase of 

 development in which practical exigency required ac- 

 tion on assumptions now seen to be faulty. Now that 

 such assumptions may l^e corrected a reasonably ac- 

 curate score card may be formulated which will be of 

 decided service. With the use of such a card there are 

 probably few farmers who would fail to practice the 

 indicated methods if the sale of their milk depended 

 upon results.* 



INFANT WELFARE STATIONS 



Contemporaneous with the clean milk movement was 

 the development of infants' milk depots, or milk sta- 

 tions, whose initial object was the dispensing, free or 

 at cost, of a high-grade milk for infant feeding. The 

 idea was the result of the conviction that the market 

 milk of large cities was unfit for infant feeding, yet 

 that the poor must have good milk at a low cost. 



* No discussion can be entered into here regarding score cards for 

 milk plants. Similar considerations, however, apply to such plants 

 in that they should be judged, not merely by equipment and visible 

 operation, but chiefly by their bacterial efficiency. 



