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CALCULATION : MANAGEMENT. 



CALCULATION: MANAGEMENT. 



On passing by a hay-field the other day, we stopped 

 to see the calculation of a couple of hired men who, 

 with the aid of a boy, were attempting to load a cart 

 with hay. They drove the cart midway between the 

 two winrows which were more than twenty feet apart. 

 One man was mounted on the cart, one used a pitch- 

 fork. This man was obliged to carry every forkful 

 not less than eight feet to reach the cart, and when he 

 had pitched a while on one side he was obliged to 

 move round to the other for the hay of the other win- 

 row. These movements gave opportunity to the man 

 on the cart to stand still one half his time and more. 

 But to balance this, the boy who was raking after the 

 cart had twice as much labor before him as he could 

 perform, for the cart was so distant from each'winrow 

 that the scatterings were strown nearly over the whole 

 ground. 



The boy fell in the rear, and the farther the team ad- 

 vanced the more hopeless was the case of the boy, for 

 he was getting farther off from the place of deposit for 

 his scatterings. We could not but inquire of the men 

 why they did not drive close by one winrow, then 

 c/ose by the other; in which case they would make 

 but little scattering for the boy, and would leave the 

 man on the load no leisure to look up and see how 

 high the sun was. 



The pitchfork man asked us, with a smile, if we 

 thought we could pitch better. We took the fork 

 from his yielding hand, hawed the team close to the 

 winrow, tossed on the hay in small forksful, '' many 

 and not far bet ween, '^^ so as to allow the man on the 

 load no leisure to be calling on the boy behind " to 

 spring to." When this winrow was finished, we turned 

 about and drove close to the next, beginning to pitch 

 from the head of the cattle^ and going back each time sa 



