The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-28
SYSTEM IN WORK.
Why It Does Not Pay to Hire Cheap eaa
Iuoompetent Farm Help.

100Omp0t0ob farm 0osRs
No matter in what business we may
be engaged, the saving Of time y -
ways more or less an object. On the !
farm, of course, this often is some
thing more than an item at one time
than at another. During the busy
season Of planting. cultivating and
every hour is Of consider
able Importance, and it is especially
necessary to economic time as much
@ possible.
One of the best means is to work by
come system. The man who goes out
to the barn in the morning, feeds his
hogs, milks the COWS, and then feeds
the work teams, goes and gets his
breakfast, and then has to wait until |
the teams get through eating before he
can start out to work. Is not economic
ing time. As well be obliged to come
back to the house about the time he |
gets fairly started to feeding. in order
to cut sufficient supply Of stove wood
to cook breakfast. He is not working
to the best advantage, and yet this 10
just what n ~ farmers do one-third
of the time, SIMPLY because they have
no system. Many useless steps are
taken requiring the loss Of more or
less time, for no other reason than q
want of system with the work.
So far as possible, one task should
follow another so that the least time
will be lost in changing from one to
the other, not only in doing the neces-
sary chores about the place, morning
and evening, but also in the field work
does this apply. In changing from one
field to another and from one kind OF
work 70 another, often much time is
lost, and that, too, at time when the
work is very pressing. Then, often
when there is much to be done. al
seemingly necessary to be done ct
once, the mistake is too often made OF
making start at too many things at
once, rather than finishing up one task
at a time, often losing considerable
time changing from one tc the other.
Knowing what you want done and how,
will often save considerable time. We
often lose valuable time determining
how we want the work done, and then
in getting every thing ready, when by
little planning ahead or systematic
ing the work much time could be saved.
Much can be saved by preparing ahead,
having, as nearly as possible, every
thing in readiness, and then by adopt
ing a regular system more time may
still be saved. 1t is always an item to
keep up with the work, and in order te
do this, and at the same time keep as
small an amount of extra help as pos
sible, some system must be adopted
and carried out.
Let us take the economy Of labor q
an example. In one sense skilled
labor is not necessary on the farm, ye
in another it is very important. Tn
man whom you can direct to start 4
the pillow field, who has skill or knowl
edge sufficient to determine for him
self the best plan of blowing, to adjus
his pillow and the team SO that goo
work can be done-for instance,
you want corn planted. you can tel
him how you want it planted, and II h
has a sufficient knowledge of his worl
E to go ahead and do his work properly
, is certainly worth more to the farme
E than the man who can only follow, an
: who obliges you to be on hand to in
t struct him constantly. The idea tina
? anybody will do on the farm if he ha
' sufficient strength to do the work is a
q erroneous one. A knowledge of ho'
work should be done, as well as tn
ability to perform it, is very necessar
in farm help, and the man that
capable of going ahead with the farl
york without your being obliged t
i show him all the details, is worth Col
9 siderable more to the farmer who mui
o depend more or less upon hired hell
: than the man not having the know
d edge necessary to go ahead.
IL Plenty of men may be hired at 10
J. prices who can hold the lines and Il
\. handles of the pillow, but this does NJ
n necessarily imply that they can dri'
, q team or handle a pillow so that GOO
work can be done.
Because man can dig or h,
= strength to use hoe is not proof tn
'e he can make good garden, or prope
d ly clean the growing plants, and Il
q difference between a man who "a
er take hold and do good work, is wort
II considerable more either by the day
Il month, than the one who must
shown how. As a rule farm work
h always pressing at this season. II
farmer can not afford to loose mut
:. time; every thing must be pushed
10 the necessary work is done in go'
season. If help is hired it is do
K with the expectation that aid in kee
7e ing up with the work will be secure
K There Is no benefit in hiring he
N at any time that is not sufficient
e. competent to make the employer
~ fair per cent. of profit for his labt
If. and on the farm this is fully as Il
Id portant as with any other class
" work; and it is rare that q man wit
81 out knowledge or experience in t
a. line of work expected of him will
at able to do this. As general rule
" will pay to secure help that is capal
"a of doing the work. and usually Il
We class of workmen is in sufficient
10. mand to command fair prices, and
g, e" will be more profitable in the end
hy pay a fair price rather than acc<