CHAPTER XVII 

 MANAGEMENT AND BOOKKEEPING 



METHODS OF MANAGEMENT 



All management and no work is worse than all work and no 

 management but why not some of each and thus make both 

 more effective and a pleasur'^. 



A mixture of brains with muscle is an essential thing around 

 a squab plant either large or small. The manual labor is not 

 so hard but it soon becomes drudgery if done in a way that 

 gets little or no results. While work twice as hard is like play 

 if it is done along well directed lines and in a way that will 

 cause one to become interested. 



The author when a boy would gladly tramp for liours through 

 the snow rabbit hunting or half a night over rocks and hills 

 and through thickets and swamps with hopes of catching a 

 coon or an opossum, while if dad wanted a rail fence fixed 

 up on a cold day or some chores done, that took us imtil after 

 dark, we tliought no one on eartli had such hard work to do. 



This is a little off of the sidjject, but it illustrates tlie fact that 

 one must be interested before work becomes a pleasure and to 

 this can be added that the best way to become interested is 

 to plan out the work in advance by careful thought and study 

 and then by accomplishing what was undertaken, one's per- 

 sonal interest will increase as time goes on and especially so 

 if the plant has been constructed along the most practical lines 

 and equipped so as to be labor saving, if good quality of squab 

 breeding birds hav.e been procured as a foundation stock and 

 everything else taken care of along similar lines. 



It costs no more to do things right whether with a few birds 

 in a back yard or large squab plants and in the long run it 

 costs less, to say nothing of the time saved and increased re- 

 sults which repay over and over for extra time and thought 

 learning the right way and for proper preparation. 



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