466 THE BOOK OF THE LANDED ESTATE. 



A form similar to No. 3 is also used as a weekly day-labour state- 

 ment and also as a monthly pay-bill. This may answer the purpose 

 where only one kind of work is carried on, as, of course, then the total 

 amount for the month shows the cost of the one operation for that time; 

 but it is not at all suited for general estate purposes, where many dif- 

 ferent operations are carried on in the course of a month, and where it 

 is advisable, as I have already shown, to have a correct statement of 

 each day's work, in order to ascertain the cost of each operation. In 

 such a statement as No. 3 the amount of time can be correctly kept ; 

 but at the end of the month, if it is required to know the number of 

 days the men were employed at any one operation, then the only source 

 of information on this point would be the memory of the superintendent, 

 and that would certainly not be a satisfactory system. The following is 

 the form No. 3 referred to : 



