Before the work is given out each day, the manager should decide exactly what is most required, and apply it to that. He should write down, when distributing the men, the works, and the number employed on each. This paper he should carry in his pocket, and he can then verify the men at work at each or any place when he visits it during the day. The writer, the moonshee, and the jemadar (if there is one), should write similar papers when the coolies are mustered in the morning, and the manager should detail to each of these men which work they are particularly responsible for. This should also be shown in the “Morning Paper.” Each of the above men then measures out the work to the coolies; visits it once or oftener in the day, and measures all that remains undone at night. A daily report of the work is kept, written by the writer in the evening. The two forms given below are those I have adopted. The latter is suited to local labour paid daily, but it can easily be altered to suit either local labour paid monthly or imported coolies. This is the Morning Paper. =================================================================== _Work to be done on 188 ._ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail|No. of Garden|In whose charge|Headman on | Probable | Actual | | | the Work | number | number ------+-------------+---------------+-----------+----------+------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------+-------------+---------------+-----------+----------+------- Total Coolies | ------------------------------------------------------------------- The column of “Probable numbers” is given so that before it is known exactly how many men will be present for work they can be divided in the most likely way. Each headman (called “Mate,” “Mangee,” &c., in different districts) is best designated by a letter or number. In neither form would there be room to put in names at length. The form below written in the evening is made into a book for each month. The advantages of it for after reference are great, and it can of course be altered to suit the kind of labour employed on any garden.