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of the amount of work they can do, and every minute 

 of their time must be made to count. Such rules are not 

 possible on a farm, but a young man who expects to farm 

 can and should make himself just as proficient as possible, 

 not with the idea of learning to do twice as much in a day 

 as an ordinary man can do, but to so direct his efforts and 

 utilize his time as to be able to do a good day's work as easily 



Figure 72. — Hereford calves out for exercise in a protected yard. Stock should 

 be left out in winter only so long as comfortable. 



and in as short a time as is consistent with good work. 



Some men have a system of harnessing and hitching 

 a team, and can do these things better and in much less 

 time than the man who has no system and, consequently, 

 does them in a different way each time. 



Milking ten or twelve cows twice each day is a com- 

 paratively easy task for a man who can milk them in an 

 hour, while to milk the same cows would be almost drudgery 

 to the man who can milk but five or six in an hour. Men 

 can make themselves very proficient and learn to do things 



