DAIRY SCORE CARDS 117 
nailed on the wall of the milk-house or of the 
dairy barn. They are the chief weapon of the 
dairy inspector. All score cards lay too much 
emphasis on surroundings and too little emphasis 
on milk. 
The most popular score card has been one 
endorsed by federal authorities, often called the 
United States score card. Even in the hands of 
the most experienced and intelligent dairy in- 
spectors, it is impossible by the use of this card to 
distinguish between the dairy producing unclean 
milk containing millions of bacteria, and the dairy 
producing sanitary milk containing a few hun- 
dred bacteria. The reason for this is that the 
United States score card fails to place the em- 
phasis on the few things of most importance in 
clean milk production. 
After all, the object of the dairyman and of 
the dairy inspector is to secure good milk, there- 
fore a good score card should lay the emphasis 
on those things which chiefly affect the sanitary 
character of milk. Below is a new score card 
which aims to do this. 
