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in a vital way with the money profits of the farming operations. 

 In considering work of this class careful attention should be 

 given to the fact that the farm is capable of providing for the 

 direct satisfaction of many wants without the intervention of 

 money, and that the importance of these wants should be com- 

 pared with those to be satisfied by the expenditure of money, 

 before deciding to neglect these direct satisfactions to earn 

 more cash profits. Many of these wants can be satisfied, how- 

 ever, without reducing the cash income, by planning the work 

 more carefully. 



B. (1) The second classification is based upon weather and 

 soil conditions with respect to humidity. There is a great 

 variety of tasks which can be done under shelter and which 

 should as nearly as possible be cared for on rainy days. Shell- 

 ing seed corn, mending the harness, and repairing tools are 

 typical examples. It is necessary to have some device to assist 

 one in thinking of these tasks when the rainy day arrives or 

 one will let these golden opportunities slip unimproved. The 

 writer knows a farmer who keeps a notebook in his pocket in 

 which he jots down the tasks which can be performed on a rainy 

 day. He calls this his rainy day book. This enables him 

 quickly to plan the work for a rainy day when it comes, and to 

 choose the tasks with attention to the date prior to which they 

 must be performed or come in conflict with rush work. The 

 rule is to push rainy day work when it is raining, and to do no 

 rainy day work when it is not raining, if there is " outside " 

 work to be done. 



(2) There is a large class of tasks which may be called " wet 

 land work." In this class falls the cutting of weeds in the fence 

 rows, the repairing of fences, the cleaning up of the wood lot, 

 the repair of buildings, the laying of concrete walks, the digging 

 of trenches for laying water pipes from the well to the house 

 and to the barn, and a score of other tasks which will crowd 

 themselves upon the farmer's mind as he considers the things 

 he wants done. The rule is to push the wet land work when 

 the land is not dry enough to work and do no work of this class 

 when there is field work which can be done. 



