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men stop work. A few days later, teams may be kept 

 out of the fields while some inside work is done that might 

 as well have been done during the rain. Extra trips are 

 often made to town to get something that might have been 

 gotten before, had it been thought of. The way to think 

 of it is to always carry a memorandum of work to be done 

 and jot down things whenever they are thought of. 



On one profitable farm where such a memorandum book 

 has been kept for five years, there has never been any 

 time lost on account of weather either in summer or 

 winter. There is always work ahead for rainy days and 



FIG. 69. Saving time in a New York timothy field. 



for cold or stormy days in winter. The farm employs 

 four men most of the time and sometimes as many as 

 seven. The winters are long and summer rains frequent, 

 yet by always keeping a memorandum of work, there is 

 work for men whenever it storms. As soon as the storm 

 is over, there is practically always work for horses until 

 the ground freezes. Even in the winter, the horses work 

 nearly every day when the weather is good. 



The following lists of winter and stormy day work show 

 some of the work that is done on this farm in advance of 



