and othei' equipment, and flushing of 

 the milk room floor. 



Since on several retail farms the 

 equipment was taken care of in as- 

 sociation with other tasks by other 

 workers, an accurate description was 

 not available on these farms. In the 

 summary totals this item was left 

 out in comparing farms. 



Care of Milk 



Data concerning this item were not 

 available on a few farms, especially 

 retail milk farms, and was not in- 

 cluded in the summary on most farms. 

 Where data were available, it included 

 the preparation of filled cans and 

 their placement in the milk cooler at 

 the end of milking. Some of this 

 work was accomplished during milk- 

 ing while straining milk. In this 

 case the time was not charged against 

 care of milk. 



In all cases the time included the 

 travel from the point of completion 

 of the previous job and the travel to 

 return the tools or equipment to their 

 proper place. 



Feeding 



Silage preparation included travel 

 into and out of the silo, forking silage 

 from the silo, and sweeping the silo 

 room floor. 



Grain preparation included all la- 

 bor in moving grain from storage and 

 emptying sacks, etc. 



Hay preparation included all la- 

 bor in moving hay from storage to 

 the feed floor. 



Feeding included the actual dis- 

 tribution of each kind of feed to the 

 cows. For instance, the care of grain 

 included the travel to the grain cart, 

 the pushing of the cart to the feed 

 alley, the actual dishing out of grain, 

 and finally the pushing of the cai't to 

 the usual storage place. 



Pushing Feed to Cows 



Pushing feed to cows included the 

 labor involved in pushing back feed 

 which had been nosed out of the 

 manger by the cows. 



Sweeping Manger 



Sweeping the manger included 

 cleaning the manger by sweeping or 

 other means and removing the ma- 

 terial. 



Cleaning 



Manure disposal included all labor 

 in removing the manure from the 

 gutter directly to the manure spread- 

 er or to the manure pile. It did not 

 include the labor involved in getting 

 the tractor and spreader to the prop- 

 er place, the trip to the field to spread 

 the manure, or driving the tractor 

 back to its usual storage place. Where 

 barn cleaners were installed, manure 

 disposal included the time of the man 

 operating the tractor during the pe- 

 riod in which the cleaner was oper- 

 ating. It also included all labor as- 

 sociated with opening doors and mov- 

 ing ramps, before and after starting 

 the cleaner. 



Appendix II 



In exploring ways and means of 

 doing each essential task easily and 

 quickly, and in studying chore man- 

 agement problems, some attention 

 was given to ideas and the develop- 

 ment of ideas that were beyond the 

 scope of the study — at least beyond 



the available funds and training of 

 the leaders. 



The ideas may or may not be prac- 

 tical. However, the authors are de- 

 scribing several of them with the 

 hope that researchers with engineer- 

 ing skill and capacity to take risks 



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