THE DAIRY SCORE CARD 



The dairy score card is a card on which are enumerated the good 

 points which a dairy should possess, and these points are given 

 numerical values. The score card is divided into two distinct 

 divisions, equipment and method. Out of a possible 100 points for a 

 perfect score, 40 are given to equipment and 60 to methods. This 

 numerical division is made to give a just recognition to the importance 

 of proper methods in the production of clean milk. Good equipment 

 should be an aid in clean milk production, and other things being 

 equal, a dairyman will produce better milk with good equipment than 

 with poor equipment. However, good equipment without proper 

 method will not produce wholesome milk. 



Those who use the score card should not regard it as an infallible 

 set of rules from which no deviation should ever be made. It is 

 simply a guide to help the producer to see the conditions of his dairy 

 and to help the inspector to judge intelligently of those conditions. 



The chief value of the score card is that when properly used it is 

 educational, and it is educational because it not only points out 

 defects, but it emphasizes the seriousness of these defects. In this 

 way the dairyman is given a chance to improve in these things which 

 will aid most in clean milk production. 



