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the house each day and each week. The workman would fill in his par- 

 ticular share of the card, and the remainder could be filled in in the office. 

 The following suggestions for a weekly card may be useful, it being 

 understood that each house has a number: 



TOMATO HOUSE, No. 1 



For the Week ending 191. 



Space far any special remarks. 



Keeping a record something like the above would be no great strain 

 on the workman or the clerk. The former would pick his crop and enter 

 the total on the card each day, and after the Saturday picking, if any, 

 he would sign his card and hand it in at the office to be made up by the 

 clerk. Each week a new card would be issued, the old one being placed 

 away in its box under its proper heading. It could afterwards be referred 

 to at any time. 



Balance Sheets. Besides having Market and Sales Books, and an 

 Analysis Book, it will be found a good plan to have special sheets drawn 

 up to keep a record of the receipts and expenses, either monthly or quar- 

 terly. These sheets will show the progress of the business, and by having 

 a column on the receipts and expenses sides for the previous years, it will 

 be possible to see at a glance whether there is any progress made or not. 

 Such a sheet will not only give an epitome of the whole business, but 

 will remind the grower that more attention may have to be paid to some 

 departments of his business than to others. The following will be found 

 a useful form to use from month to month or from quarter to quarter: 



