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other to finish using it, for the time there will be a loss of time ; 

 and in a few days, those lost, idle moments, when a laborer is 

 receiving seventy-five cents or more per day, will soon amount 

 to enough to purchase a set of tools. 



During the season of haying and harvesting in particular, the 

 tyro should see to it that every plan is most wisely and economi 

 cally laid, in disposing of the manual forces of the farm. "Whether 

 he leads the van in active labor, or only superintends, he should, 

 as occasion requires, think what disposition he may make of his 

 -orces, in order to accomplish the greatest amount of labor in a 

 given time. If, for example, it will be necessary to spread, or 

 turn, or air a lot of hay, in some distant field, which one man 

 will be able to do in half an hour or so, let one only go and do 

 it. Let one hand only get a team, instead of sending two. 

 When there are more than two hands in loading, let two pitch 

 while one loads : because one man can load for two pitchers just 

 as well as for one. When the distance is half a mile or more 

 from the barn to the field, and it is convenient to have two teams 

 to haul with, three hands will accomplish more at hauling hay 

 and grain, by putting on two loads in the field and driving them 

 to the place of unloading, and unloading both wagons, than they 

 will to use only one wagon and one team : because there will be 

 less time not appropriated to useful labor when there are two teams, 

 than when but one is used. In hauling anything any consider 

 able distance, in order to appropriate the working hours to the 

 most economical-, purpose, each man should have a team, so that 

 all his time may be consumed, if not in active labor, in something 

 which consumes time, such as simply driving a team with a 

 load. 



In hauling heavy logs or timber, where two or more hands are 

 absolutely necessary in loading, in order to lose no time of work 

 men, each one should have a team ; and then two, three, or more, 

 as may be necessary, should load one team, and then another ; 

 and then each man drive a team to the place of unloading, when 

 no time need be consumed to no purpose. 



I have been led to pen these thoughts in consequence of having 



