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THE BEGINNER IN POULTRY 



implements some feet distant from the table, etc., and 

 with the table too low, so that a strain was constantly on 

 the back of the worker. He showed how the housewife, 

 working in this illy arranged " shop," would walk seven 

 feet and back, from six to a dozen times, merely in as- 

 sembling her baking materials and tools. He referred 



" Graded ; ' Corn, The Staple Poultry Feed, as Grown and Shown by Mid- 

 West Boys. Getting in Line for Efficiency 



to the lost- motions in not reducing bread making to a 

 system of movements always performed in the same 

 way and in the same order. In applying the system to 

 her needs, on two or three different days the expert 

 would watch this worker, record her movements and her 

 steps, tabulate all, and work out a plan to cut out possi- 



