Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-07
WHAT SCIENTIFIC EFFICIENCY REALLY MEANS

Scientific efficiency doesn't mean working harder, but working wisely. It doesn't mean working longer, put working in more effectively. n doesn't take any ml'e out of man, but puts all it does fake into the job:-doesnt waste part of it in false motions It means either greater productfveness with the same work, or equal produc- tiveness with less work.
 Scientific efficiency is really a somewhat unfortunate name for it, be- cause the words are so big and they sound so magnificent that they In- evitably arouse a certain prejudice Tn the minds of many. But the phrase expresses the meaning, and has become fixed in usage. So we shall have to stick to it.
 What I'm wondering is why a good full dose of it wouldn't be fine thing on the farm. All that the experts talk about is it's value in shops and factories to skilled workmen therein employed. But if there ever was man who took two steps to do the work of one and made ten motions where only five were actually needed, it is the average farmer l never saw a barn yet. for one example, where all the tools for the regular barn work were invariably kept handy in the eX- act places which experience had shown saved steps. Generally each one has been dropped where it was used last, and has to be hunted up when next called for. Other tools are treated much the same way.
 If I could be sure of getting straight returns from all hands I'd be willing to bet even money with every farmer who reads this that he can't tell for sure at this minute, where his best nail hammer is: whether it is in the nail box where 1t belongs or is lying where the last one who used it dropped it. I should lose some of the bets, of course; but I think I'd win enough to come out more than even.
 know one farmer who, every sea- son, draws twenty or thirty loads of manure and a dozen or more loads Of produce Of a certain field. To reach it he has to swing out into the road from his home place, travel a sixth of a mile along the highway, and enter the field through pair of bars at tine corner farthest removed from his barn. A halfday's work in scraping some gravel into a, narrow swale at one end of the barn would enable him to draw everything to and from that field di- rectly, saving a, full sixth of mile to each trip, or from five to eight miles of useless hauling every year. But,-'Why, them bars has allus ben thar" is his only reply when the idea is suggested.
 When you start out cuitivating corn or potatoes, did you ever find the lines just right to slip over your shoulders? They re always either too short CT | too long, and demand either splicing or knotting up. In either case you have to test them about half-a-dozen times before you get them just right. And then there's apt to be a 'tair' drag ging behind you to be stepped on ev- cry time you turn at the end of a row. A piece of unkinkable, non- n-stretcha- ble cord with a simple snap at each end for the bit-rings, once for all l measured and cut to exact length. sub stituted for the leather reins before hitching on to the cultivator, would often save many minutes time other wise wasted in buckling, tieing and un- tieing and retieing.
 Did you ever watch the averaae