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CHAPTER XXVII. 



MANAGEMENT. ACCOUNTS. FORMS. 



SYSTEM and order, a good memory, a good temper, firmness, 

 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 manage- 

 ment 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 



