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equipment to conform with the regulations that 

 have been worked out by the United States of- 

 ficials, but too many times the equipment is 

 considered all that is necessary to produce high 

 grade milk. Thus, many men who really are 

 producing a high grade of milk are receiving 

 no more than any one else, and men with good 

 equipment are producing a much inferior milk 

 and receiving the price that really should go to 

 the other man. We have always felt that it 

 is an unjust discrimination against many dairy- 

 men to prohibit them from competing with 

 other men who maintained a more elaborate 

 and expensive equipment. It seems to us that 

 quality should govern the production of market 

 milk in all cases. 



Good Features of Score-Card. 



Enforcing the score-card system of inspec- 

 ing dairies has some very good features to com- 

 mend it. It enables the producer to produce 

 good quality milk with less labor and at less 

 cost than with less complete equipment, and 

 beside the esthetic effect on the individuals 

 that consume the product has some little bear- 

 ing. You will agree with me that milk that is 

 produced from a dairy where all of the build- 

 ings are neat and well kept, the cows are clean, 

 all the attendants are dressed clean and every- 

 thing is spick and span, will appeal to most in- 

 dividuals as just the kind that they desire, 

 while it may not be nearly so wholesome or 



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