. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. 158 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE of the amount of work they can do, and every minute of their time must be made to count. Such rules are not possible on a farm, but a young man who expects to farm can and should make himself just as proficient as possible, not with the idea of learning to do twice as much in a day as an ordinary man can do, but to so direct his efforts and utiUze his time as to be able to do a good day's work as easily II i. Figure -Hereford calves out for exercise in a protec
. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. 158 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE of the amount of work they can do, and every minute of their time must be made to count. Such rules are not possible on a farm, but a young man who expects to farm can and should make himself just as proficient as possible, not with the idea of learning to do twice as much in a day as an ordinary man can do, but to so direct his efforts and utiUze his time as to be able to do a good day's work as easily II i. Figure -Hereford calves out for exercise in a protected yard, be left out in winter only so long as comfortable. Stock should and in as short a time as is consistent with good work. Some men have a system of harnessing and hitching a team, and can do these things better and in much less time than the man who has no system and, consequently, does them in a different way each time. Milking ten or twelve cows twice each day is a com- paratively easy task for a man who can milk them in an hour, while to milk the same cows would be almost drudgery to the man who can milk but five or six in an hour. Men can make themselves very proficient and learn to do things. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, Archie Dell, 1875-; Wilson, E. W. , joint author. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb Publishing Co.
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