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owned farms within the district can be directly made. The method 
followed can be used. 
Owing to the fact that a large number of laborers were em¬ 
ployed upon the College Farm, a system of checks was installed. 
Each man was required to make out a Daily Labor Report slip, 
showing exactly what he did and where he did it and the number 
of man and horse hours applied to the different things upon which 
he worked during the day. 
These Daily Labor blanks were turned into the Farm Super¬ 
intendent each day. The Farm Superintendent carefully checked 
each slip to see that the proper charges and places of work were 
recorded upon the slips. All of the slips were summarized upon a 
daily summary sheet. These summary sheets were then checked by 
the Farm Manager to insure correctness of charges. The daily 
summary sheets were used as a basis for the system of accounts 
kept by the college bookkeeper. 
In making charges to the various departments of the college 
for work done, a uniform rate was agreed upon. The price per 
man hour was twenty cents and for a horse hour twelve and one- 
half cents. These figures were purely arbitrary and were agreed 
upon after a preliminary estimate. 
COST OF MAN LABOR. 
In determining the cost of man labor on the College Farm, 
the total number of man hours for the year divided by the total cost 
of man labor for the year gave us the man labor cost per hour for 
the specific year. It will be noticed from a consultation of the table 
that the cost did not remain uniform in the different years. This 
may be partially explained from the fact that labor paid by the 
month will have a variable number of working days within the year. 
Some years there is more sickness. Some years weather conditions 
are such as to cut short the hours of labor at certain seasons of the 
year; then, each monthly employee who has been with the college 
a year has been permitted a vacation period. All of these factors 
change the total amount of time which the laborer will put in from 
year to year. Then in some years, for construction and other pur¬ 
poses, higher priced labor has been employed for short periods. 
TABLE. No. 1. 
COST OF MAN LABOR ON COLLEGE FARM. 
1910 
1911 
1912 
♦ 
1913 
June 1, ’14 
Average 
for Period 
Total No. of hours. . 
33,606% 
40,244% 
55,664% 
47,618 y 2 
18,353 
Total cost of labor. . . 
$6,638.00 
$8,838.00)$12,219.14 $11,022.70 
$4,238.00 
Cost per hour . 
! 0.198 
0.219 
0.219 
0.231 
0.231 
0.22 
