24 BULLETIN 660, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP 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 10J 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 hi money and hi 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. 
