ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 75 



Wagons. 

 General Appearance. — If painted and in good repair, allow 2 points; for 



fair condition, 1; poor, 0. 

 Protection of Product. — If product is iced, allow 3 points; well protected 



but not iced, 1; no protection, 0. 

 Cleanliness. — If perfectly clean, allow 5; good, 3; fair, 2; poor, 0. 



As in the case of the score card used in field work, this sys- 

 tem enables the inspector to give each plant selling milk a definite 

 rating and the existing conditions can be seen at a glance. Some 

 fifty milk plants have already been scored with very gratifying 

 results. As a rule the managers of the plants were very willing 

 to have the inspector go through and make a thorough examina- 

 tion. In most cases they are also very willing to talk over the 

 score and take any suggestions the inspector may have to give. 

 In many instances, they have stated that they were going to 

 make the improvements immediately and they invited the inspec- 

 tors to call again when these improvements were made and give 

 them another scoring. 



Of course a great variety of conditions are met with in going 

 through these milk plants. A few have the salesroom connected 

 with the kitchen or living room, which is objectionable for the 

 reason that in case of sickness in the family, any contagious 

 disease might readily be transmitted to the customer buying milk. 

 In a few cases, women with children in their arms came from 

 the kitchen or some other part of the house into the salesroom 

 to wait on customers. 



How far should Boards of Health go in requiring dairymen 

 to improve their conditions? 



Just how far Boards of Health should go in requiring dairy- 

 men to improve their dairies when the greater part of the consum- 

 ing public are not willing to pay better prices for better milk is 

 a question worth considering. While the price is a drawback to 

 the improvement, many dairymen selling their milk in our cities 

 for 7 and 8 cents a quart are already receiving a good price and 

 it is not too much to demand of them that they keep their cows 

 clean, their stables whitewashed, their utensils clean, their milk 

 houses clean, and that they cool their milk to a temperature of 55 



