68 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



reach my own ideals even, but I have made up my mind to try. 

 No matter what the motive is in the Department of Agriculture 

 in sending- out such inspectors, it cannot fail, in my judgment, 

 to do immense good. 



I want you to come around next year again and if I am not 

 entitled to be marked up at least 20 points, I will promise you to 

 go out of the business and I ought to. 



Very truly yours. 



Signed 



The Board of Health in Washington is already using the 

 scores for the purpose of revoking permits and several who have 

 scored low have been cut off. After all the dairies have been scor- 

 ed, the names of those who have reached a standard of 70 or 

 above will be published in the local papers. This will encourage 

 the dairyman in his efforts to produce clean milk, and he will 

 use the results to advertise his product, and it is fair and right 

 that he should. The published results will give the consumer an 

 opportunity to know where good milk can be secured. At the 

 present time, it is difficult for the consumer to determine where 

 he can get good milk and what the condition of the dairy is he 

 is taking milk from. This has worked out nicely in my own 

 personal experience. I have recently dropped the dairyman 

 supplying me with milk after finding that his rating was only 

 43 on a scale of 100 and I have given a dairyman with a 

 of over 70 my custom. Right here, I want to say that the 

 present method of selling milk is very unfair both to the pro- 

 ducer and the consumer. The dairy having a low score and 

 producing insanitary milk sells his product for the same price 

 nothing about the sanitary side of the question. The score card 

 system will have a tendency to grade the dairies as well as the 

 product, and to put the sale of milk on a fair basis for all con- 

 cerned. 



Work in Progress Outside of Washington. 



In addition to the work in rating and scoriing dairies con- 

 ducted in the city of Washington, we are cooperating with the 

 Boards of Health in one other large city and over 700 dairies 



