and tools never used for other pur- 

 poses. Operators occasionally inter- 

 rupt whatever task they are doing to 

 hoe the soil back of individual cows 

 into the gxitter. This can be held to 

 a minimum, but several hoes can be 

 stored at convenient places for occa- 

 sional use without undue travel. 



Having developed these definite 

 work centers, the sequence of chore 

 tasks and the work schedule of the 

 men can be reorganized so that each 

 man can operate from one center for 

 a considerable time, thus curtailing 

 travel from one work center to an- 

 other. In a large barn, this may re- 

 quire the assignment of a definite 

 work schedule to each man so that 

 each may confine himself for a long- 

 er period to the chores associated with 

 one work center. 



Dairy barn chore work is associated 

 with biological processes] of the cows, 

 and the nature of the tasks necessar- 

 ily requires considerable jumping 

 from one task to another and occa- 

 sionally the interruption of one task 

 to do another. Much time and travel 

 can be avoided if this can be held to 

 a minimum by well-planned work 



schedules. Definite work schedules 

 for each man provide an opportunity 

 for each man to work productively 

 during the chore period. For instance, 

 in the period after breakfast, one 

 worker might do all the tasks asso- 

 ciated with the cleaning work center 

 and the other all the forenoon tasks 

 associated with the feeding center. 

 Workers could exchange schedules by 

 weeks or days if they prefer. But on 

 a given day each has a definite job, 

 and while working in the same barn, 

 they are not in each other's way nor 

 attempting to use the same equipment 

 or tools. Each is doing tasks that 

 one man can do to better advantage 

 than two. There is a better sanitary 

 situation because of fewer trips from 

 the cleaning work center and areas 

 back of the cows to the feeding work 

 center and areas in front of the cows. 

 A convenient arrangement to re- 

 duce travel from one work center to 

 another and to have favorable sani- 

 tary conditions is to locate the feed- 

 ing and milk centers at one end, but at 

 opposite sides of the barn and the 

 cleaning center at the far end of the 

 barn. 



Tools used in the cleaning work centers are in their places. There is 

 no walking from one end of the barn to the other for tools. 



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