ESTATE MANAGEMENT 133 



should keep the f ollowing books : Roll-book, 

 Allocation-book, Planting Records, and Crop- 

 book. 



Roll-book. This will contain the names or 

 numbers of all the labourers, with columns for 

 entering daily whether present at work or not. A 

 specimen page of a convenient Roll-book is given 

 (page 134). This should be filled up at the end of 

 the month with the total number of day's work, 

 rate of pay, pay due, etc., and from this the men 

 can be paid. 



Each man should have a labour ticket, which 

 should be marked up daily to correspond with the 

 Roll-book. The man then knows what wage he is 

 earning, and argument at the month's end as to the 

 number of days' work is saved. The man gives up 

 his ticket on receiving pay. 



Allocation-book. In this book is entered up 

 daily the number of men engaged on every par- 

 ticular kind of work; and the daily total here 

 should agree with the daily total of the Roll-book. 

 At the month's end the total sum paid out as 

 wages is divided up by the total number of days 

 to get the average cost of a day's work, and from 

 this the actual cost of each kind of work for the 



