380 A YEAR IN AGRICULTURE 



The office. Find some place about your home that you 

 can call your office. It may be in your bedroom, in some 

 small room, in the corner of a large one, in some building 

 near the home, or in a place which you can fix up. Make 

 this a place to keep most of your belongings, and to carry on 

 your business affairs even if they are small. Call this your 

 business office. 



The equipment. In this office have a desk with drawers, 

 pigeon-holes, and shelves for keeping your account books, 

 bank book, check book, pens, pencils, ink, paper, envelopes, 

 bulletins, clippings, crop records, etc. If you cannot buy 

 a desk for your office, make one. Instructions for making a 

 desk are given further on. Have some book shelves, a calen- 

 dar, and some pictures on the walls of your office to make 

 it look business-like and attractive. 



Bookkeeping and records. Have a good, permanent, well- 

 bound account book or ledger in which to keep an account 

 of all your business and the agricultural projects you carry on. 



In the first part of the book you should make a list of what 

 you own. This is called an inventory. You might start it 

 this way : 



INVENTORY OF WHAT I OWN. 



Date 1916. 



Article Value 



1 Knife $0.35 



2 Books 1.25 



1 Pig 4.75 



1 Office desk 5.00 



Money in bank 7.50 



