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THE SMALL NURSERY 



The manager (in this case the writer) carries with him 

 a pocket memorandum book, of which each sheet is 

 ruled off into columns. A column is provided for each 

 important enterprise (including each of the major crops) 

 upon which labor is expended. The inside cover is marked 

 off to correspond with the rulings upon the sheets and to 

 carry the column headings, thus saving the trouble of 

 relisting these headings on each new page. 



If the manager is to be absent for long, the work of 

 timekeeping is assigned to the foreman or man in charge. 

 At first, your employes may smile at your endeavors; 

 but after the novelty wears off you will find an increased 

 efficiency all around. All workmen instinctively respect 

 efficient business methods. A good manager should know 

 w^hat his men are doing. By making the rounds every 

 hour or so, it soon becomes easy to keep track of the time 

 spent on each kind of work. 



(Cover of 

 note-book) 



] 



1 Carna- 

 tions 



Sweet 

 Peas 



Violets 



Snaps 



'Mums 



(etc.) 



Misce'l. 

 Work 



(Sheet of 

 note-book) 



2x3.5 

 2.3 



3x2.5 





3x0 . 5 





(etc.) 



Repaired 

 wagon 

 2i2 



Hauling 

 coal 

 6.0 



Taking the accompanying fragment of a typical work 

 record page for one day, the column marked Carnations 

 shows that two men spent about 3.5 hours each stringing, 

 while one man disbudded for about hours. Later, 

 we put three men at suckering Snapdragons for about one- 

 half hour prior to quitting time. 



We keep no daily record of routine work, such as 

 firing, watering, ventilating, etc., as these items easily 



