24 BULLETIN GGO, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



forms or blank books should not be permitted, as such practice will 

 result in unreliable data, often estimated at the end of the day's 

 work, or a jumble of meaningless figures. Forms to be used for 

 recording field data should be reduced, if possible, to pocket size for 

 the sake of convenience. Two such forms are suggested in this 

 bulletin, the sheets being 4f inches wide by 10 i inches long. It is 

 not expected that these forms will meet all the requirements for 

 every system, but it is believed that they are correct in principle, 

 and with slight modifications will be found applicable for any 

 organization doing highway work. 



The forms designed and suggested herein are based upon and 

 developed from the great number of various forms now in use in 

 highway work throughout the United States and Canada. The 

 same form is used for labor and equipment operations, but an addi- 

 tional form is necessary for materials, as it would be awkward to 

 make out individual sheets for each kind of material. The daily 

 summary of costs, and the periodic and total summary cost sheets are 

 included, to show the final disposition and use of the data collected 

 on the daily record forms. The final summaries also will fulfill the 

 purpose of a final record of the cost of any job, and can be pub- 

 lished for the purpose of substantiating and justifying the amounts 

 expended. 



Additional forms are necessary to record progress and character 

 of the work by the supervising engineer, and the methods and 

 amounts of payments made upon the work. Such forms will be 

 treated in a subsequent bulletin. 



The cost-recording forms are outlined and used as follows : 



Form No. 2 (fig. 2) provides for 40 entries of men or equipment 

 or both and their use on six classifications. The amount for each 

 individual item can be given both in money and in total hours. 



This form shows that on August 29, 1917, the foreman F. Smittie 

 employed a gang of laborers numbered from 1 to 21; engineer, No. 

 4; rollers, No. 1 and No. 2; team, No. 2; guards Nos. 1 and 2; and 

 waterboy, No. 2, on reconstruction work on the B. and W. Road, 

 section 4. 



These codes show they were employed as follows: 



11-59 Grade and roadside, shoulders, shaping. 

 23-06 Roadway, base course, cleaning. 

 23-56 Roadway, base course, rolling. 

 23-61 Roadway, base course, spreading. 

 27-34 Roadway, top course, laying. 

 27-56 Roadway, top course, rolling. 



