152 CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF TEA. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



MANAGEMENT. ACCOUNTS. FORMS. 



SYSTEM and order, a good memory, a good temper, firm- 

 ness, attention to details, agricultural knowledge, industry, 

 all these, combined with a thorough knowledge of Tea 

 cultivation and Tea manufacture, are the requisites for the 

 successful management of a Tea plantation. 



To find men with all these qualities is, I allow, not very 

 easy, still they do exist, and such a one must be had if 

 success in Tea is looked for. 



Before the work is given out each day, the manager 

 should decide exactly what is most required, and apply it 

 to that. He should write down, when distributing the men, 

 the works, and the number employed on each. This paper 

 he should carry in his pocket, and he can then verify the 

 men at work at each or any place when he visits it during 

 the day. 



The writer, the moonshee, and the jemadar (if there is 

 one), should write similar papers when the coolies are 

 mustered in the morning, and the manager should detail 

 to each of these men which work they are particularly 

 responsible for. This should also be shown in the " Morning 

 Paper." 



Each of the above men then measures out the work to 

 the coolies ; visits it once or oftener in the day, and 

 measures all that remains undone at night. A daily report 

 of the work is kept, written by the writer in the evening. 



The two forms given below are those I have adopted. 

 The latter is suited to local labour paid daily, but it can 



