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ness and this is an incentive to make improvements where needed 

 After the responsibility of all these parties is well understood, 

 the first thing to be done is to require all dealers in milk to procure 

 a license ; this is a protection and a privilege as it gives the citi- 

 zens a means of knowing what dealers are willing to conform* to 

 reasonable regulations and also those who will allow anyone the 

 privilege of visiting either the farm where the milk is produced 

 or the depot from which it is distributed. 



The adoption of a standard or a score card by which each 

 farm and dairy may be measured, or inspected will be the next 

 step towards raising the general condition of the milk supply oi 

 any community, because ignorance on the part of the producer 

 as to what is needed at his dairy to bring it up to the required 

 standard is sometimes the cause of impure milk and there will 

 doubtless always be different grades of clean milk coming from 

 the many farms that produce it. 



766. The dairy farm score card is a standard by which dairy 

 farms may be measured and their standing as to cleanliness, etc., 

 recorded; it is based on a systematic arrangement of the various 

 conditions that have an influence on the purity of milk and these 

 are then given a numerical value. A number of different score 

 cauls have been proposed for the use of inspectors as a means of 

 recording the conditions under which milk is produced at each 

 farm visited. 



777. The following is the one used by the City of New York. 

 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 

 The City of New York. 



Division of General Sanitary 



Inspection. Dairy Report. 

 Inspection No Time A. P. M. Date 1912 



1. Dairyman Owner 



2. P. O. Address : P. O. Address 



3. County State. . . . Party Interviewed 



4. Milk delivered to Creamery at Formerly at 



5. Operated by Address 



6. Distance of farm from Creamery Occupied farm since 



7. No. Cows No. Milking. ..... .No. Qts. produced 



