FODDER IN INDIA. 49 



usually want to lose his job, if he does another soon takes it ; 

 the man at three annas is perfectly indifferent and will just as 

 soon go as stay, to work ; treated with justice and firmness with 

 a minimum of abuse and a " regular " pay day all will go 

 well and you will know where you are and what is being 

 done. Low wages, indifferent supervision, irregular pay- 

 ments, want of interest, neglect, injustice or abuse and you 

 will never know where you are or what is going on, neither 

 will the farm prosper. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Although managers must keep a constant eye on the 



out-door work, near and far, it is never- 



, , ■ , 1 , , . . , General Remarks, 



theless most essential that he should be 



fully acquainted with all his office work, and be thorough- 

 ly convei^sant with the system of accounts in vogue : therefore 

 he must spend several hours a day in office. The larger the 

 farm usually the greater the number of hours ; the ability to 

 arrange his hours of work so that "everything " is attended 

 to and nothing neglected is the criterion of good manage- 

 ment. The great thing in the office is to keep up to date ; to 

 get into arrears is fatal, and lost ground most difficult to 

 recover. In India with its surfeit of gazetted and other 

 holidays, exclusive of the Sundays and ^^j^^,^, ^„^ Holidays 

 absences on private leave of clerks on 



various pleas, it is no easy matter in a busy office to hold 

 your own ; but by having an antedated list of Reports and 

 Returns in his own office a manager can usually get these 

 off up to time. The regular recurring weekly and monthly 

 returns and accounts should not be left over entirely until 

 the month is over ; in several cases it is possible to start 

 them early in the month to which they refer and work them 

 up gradually— this will save a rush and scramble at the 

 end, and innumerable errors in consequence. Babus must 

 understand clearly that when Government allowed all these 



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