MILKING WORK CENTER 



Empty Shipping Cans 

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Cooler 



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btur 



CLEANING WORK CENTER 



V Sawdust Cart under 



V overhead storage outlet 



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cows FACE IN 



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xx-*^Two Hay Forks here 



Manure 



Corrier 



or 



Barn 

 Cleaner 



SILO 



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Grain Cart under overhead grain outlet 

 DUn ^ ■*^~ Entrance to Hay Mow 

 "■^Ll-.~J^.— — cStored Sacks special Grain 



'If Beet Pulp fed wet have watertight container in cart 

 Twin Siloge Carts under silo chute 



FEEDING WORK CENTER 



Fig. 4. A plan for three work centers. Each chore begins and ends at a 

 work center. 



IV Organization for Chores 



Observation of chore work in dairy 

 barns indicates the impoi'tance of 

 over-all chore management plans. In 

 some barns there was considerable 

 confusion, workers unnecessarily- 

 traveling from one end of the barn to 

 the other. A lack of integration of 

 activities of the different workers re- 

 sulted in periods of under-employ- 

 ment of one or more individuals. At 

 times, workers under-employed at the 

 moment did tasks that were not es- 

 sential. As an example, one worker 

 pushed hay to the cows several times 

 in a period of 15 minutes. He did 

 this merely because he had to wait 

 frequently for the other man. 



Efficient low labor cost chore work 

 depends on the adequacy and location 

 of facilities, integration and sequence 



of chore tasks, and general manage- 

 ment of workers, as well as simplified 

 work procedure in doing each task. 

 Two important basic chore manage- 

 ment principles have been suggested 

 by several research studies.* 



1. Plan chore activities around 

 definite work centers. 



2. Arrange layout so that chores 

 can be done by circular travel. The 

 conditions under which these prin- 

 ciples can be applied may not be easily 

 or economically attained in present 

 dairy barns. But in most instances, 

 if the operator understands the basic 

 philosophy back of these principles, 

 he can improve his present chore sit- 

 uation by partial conformity. 



* Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station 

 Bulletin 503 (1943). Saving Through Farm 

 Job Analysis by R. M. Carter. 



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