120 THE DAIRY INSPECTOR 
THE FAILURE OF SCORE CARDS 
Even a card like this is an utter failure. In 
actual practice it has been used by some of the 
most experienced dairy inspectors in America, 
who not only could not agree sometimes within 
ten points of each other, but also found that the 
card did a great injustice to some farmers, because 
it failed to agree with the sanitary character of 
the milk produced. 
We must put the score card in the same class 
with the strainer cloth. It is one of the most 
dangerous instruments in the dairy business. The 
score card above is shown mainly as a curiosity 
and not because it should be used. Health au- 
thorities are learning how to control milk without 
the use of score cards. They are coming at last 
to realize that milk consumers do not drink dairy 
barns, but drink milk. They are beginning to 
require only things of most sanitary importance 
and not things which have no effect on the milk. 
NEW YORK CITY’S NEW MILK REGULATIONS 
The Department of Health of the City of New 
York, after careful study of score cards, has de- 
