The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-04-29
CARD system OF
DAIRY AIRY INSPECTION
One OF The BestWys Of Promoting
Sanitation.
RESULTS ALREADY ACHIEVED
Many Places Found lndescribabiy Dir
~ Are Improved by Regular
Securing - General Move
For Pure MILK.
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have shown the Importance. of pro
ducing and handling milk under clean
conditions and a significant factor
in attaining that result is the score
card system of dairy inspection, &C
cording to Messrs, Clarenct B, Lane
and George NJ Whitaker in report
just published by the bureau of Ami,
NAL Industry of the United STATES
Department of Agriculture. The
main advantage that they attribute
TO the score-card system is that IL
deals with itemized conditions. City
milk inspection few years ago was
merely a matter of detecting added
water or preservatives. with recent
progress in sanitary science the work
has broadened, and boards of health
are now investigating the sanitary
phases of milk production, Transports
ton and distribution: 1856 ~ =" 71@4
In the smaller cities most of the
milk consumed is rerailed by the pro-
Queer and even in places of consider
able size many producers are also
retailers. In cases where the func-
tions of producer and retailer are
mel ged in one person an inspection of
the dairy farm discloses the methods
of distribution as well as production,
and the dairy farm score-card an
swers all purposes under such condi-
tions. &
MIX Plants Good and Bad.
As cities grow, middlemen become
a necessity and their PAGES of bust
ness are more familiarly known as
plants" These plants have wide
range of capacity, equipment and
methods. One extreme is building
300 to 400 feet long on a spur of a.
railroad where milk is received by the
train load, cooled, mixed, filtered, per-
haps pasteurized, canned or bottled,
and held in cold storage until retail
ed in the city. The other extreme is
the dealer retailing only few gal
Ions who may have no plant and his
equipment consist of only carrier
can and quart measure which we're
washed in the kitchen sink with the
family dishes; or he may have fitted
up the dark, lily ventilated basement
of his residence as milk pant,
with a wooden tank for cooling the
milk, a few dozen bottles, a washtubI
in which to cleanse them, dipper
for filling, and brush to agitate luke
warm water inside the bottles. Ill
does not necessarily follow that ali
small dealers adopt improper prac-
tees, but the chances are that the.
ordinary milkman with small capital
and only a little at stake will not
take as much care as a person differ
emily situated. .....s ...- ...
For the past two years the Bureau
of Animal Industry through its Dairy
Division has been making a study of
dairy, inspection with a view to de.
yeloping system that would be
practical and comprehensive, and
has assisted the authorities of a
number of cities in different sections
of the country IN applying sucn
methods for the Improvement of their
milk supplies. Some results of this
work, together with instructions for
using the score-card system, are
given in the publication referred TO,
which may be had by addressing a
request to the Bureau al Washington
ID. c., for Circular 1879. a.. ~.
Striking Example Of Improvement.
A striking example of the possibil.
ity of improving dairy conditions
through the score-card system is
shown in the report of 20 diaries at
Richmond, Va, which made the great
est percentage of gain from the first
score TO the last during period Of
six months. The lowest score was
20 points on a scale of 100. This
place" said the health officer, was
indescribably bad. Seventeen cows
were huddled into two dark, foul
sheds, with about 200 cubic feet of
air space to each COW. The, water
supply was grossly contaminated.
The milk was poured from dirty pals
into cans which stood in manure in a
dirty stable yard. Everything was
In keeping with this partial picture. ?
This dairynan Immediately took
steps to meet the requirements of the
scoring system in use, and his scores
showed Saeady improvement visit by
visit the last score showing 62.5,
which was above the average The
same health officer further states:
Common justice demands that full
credit should be given TO the milk
producers and to the city dairymen
for their share In what has been ac-
complished. !. To anyone who was IA
milIar with the conditions under
which milk was produced and sold in
this city a year ago. a visit to the
dairy farms supplying US with milk
at the present time would prove ut
tie short Of astonishing. On every
hand new stables have been erected
and old ones improved. milk houses
have gone up. stable yards Improved
and most Important Of all, better
inslhods of milking. iandiilg and
Transporting milk.
peslers Desire Betterments.
Maay large dealers employ au IN
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