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increased cost is very slight, and, as sanitary milk is one of 

 the cheapest and best foods we have, there should be no 

 objection to a slight increase in price, if it be accompanied 

 by an improvement in the quality. The cause of impure 

 and unhygienic milk is not so much a lack of expensive 

 equipment, as it is a lack of clean methods, and the presence 

 of unhealthy cows. 



The Score Card. — The inspection of dairy farms and 

 dairies necessitated the adoption of a score card to insure 

 imiformity of reports from various inspectors. The Of- 

 ficial Dairy Instructors' Association has introduced such 

 a score card, that has been adopted by the Dairy Division 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture, and is 

 being used at the present time, sometimes in a modified 

 form, in more than 60 of the larger cities of the country 

 and in many smaller ones. The latest form of this score 

 card is as follows: 



