Show ii ina Y irwy afif ira m m ins ir i BARN ARN DOOR records health departments new system of milk mik inspection just how well dairymen follow the rules will be 80 posted by mean mea s of cloth sign department means business chicago never indulge in loud talking in the presence pre senca of 0 the cow this Is not a maxim copied from a textbook on polite behavior it la on the contrary the import of just juat one ot at a set of exacting regulations which milk producing farmers within 16 miles of chicago are to be required to post on their barn doors by order 0 the chicago health department the rules rulea are printed on an stout linen cloth calculated to defy wear and weather nailing them on the barn door 1 Is only the first requirement of the health departments order thereafter they are to be obeyed IDs inspectors from chicago will call around to see how the farmer is succeeding and on the bottom of the cloth poster there will be marked la in indelible ink the he score which the dairyman has reached there the score will stand where neighbors and customers may look at it until the inspector calls again and 0 dds adds another percentage mark that will boost or lower farmers stand ing in the community the import of all of which Is that the chicago health department means business and farmers in illinois wisconsin indiana and michigan who have dealings with the city are finding it out cut that of the dealers in chicago are obeying the city ordinance which requires the safeguarding of milk against tuberculosis contamination either by pasteurization or through tuberculin tests was wan announced the oth othar day by health commissioner W A evans that means that only are not complying with the ordinance said dr evans fifty of that will be made to comply within a week awen ty five more will be brought in line within another week by that time the number of law violators will be pretty small and we shall exhaust the means of the department to make it a negligible quality following an inspection trip mado made by mayor busses milk commission accompanied compa nied by dr evans and departmental associates a trip madek byall by automobile to and which included the ats ata citation of many farms largo large and dinall between evanston and palatine health officials told of 0 the measures that have bavo been adopted to raise the standard of the dairies supplying chicago I 1 how well ono should bo be satisfied catlon ed with what was seen boon the other day depends altogether upon the point of view said commissioner evana in the first place the trip showed improvement pro over the past such improvement pro la Is going on constantly and it Is encouraging but to say that all that should bo be accomplished lias has been accomplished would bo far from the fact act chicago has baa six inspectors whose territory miles tram chicago and includes dairies we must have moro more inspectors but in the meantime we are going what can be done with the six that we have one fact that I 1 thought of some significance was waa that when we stopped at a dairy that appeared to be below tho the average in cleanliness inquiry developed that the milk was not corn coma ing to chicago some of it was going to wilmette Wll mette somis boina to other places it coming coining here the health department has baa adopted the government system of marking the score of dairy farmers a system that Is hold bold exceedingly exacting by this standard tt it la Is said cald that less leas than one per cent of the dairies as an ye yet 1 rank above 80 per cent in degree 0 ol 01 e excellence xcell ence while the largest number range from 40 to 60 SO per cent |