_Work on for 188 ._ ============================================================================ Detail of Work|No. of |Mangees| Chupp | | |Coolies|Measurement and |Garden | | | | | |Remarks --------------+-------+-------+-------+----+----+-------+------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------+-------+-------+-------+----+----+-------+------------------- | | | | | | As. Total at Work | | | | | | × 3 = Command | | | | | | × 2-1/2 = Sick | | | | | | × 2 = Absent | | | | | | × 1-1/2 = ----------------------+-------+-------+----+----+-------+------------------- Total | | | | | | × 1 = ------------------------------------------------------ Picking Leaf = Making Tea = Tea Sorting = --------------- Cut = --------------- Total = =============== The following is the plan I recommend for the leaf-picking and the Tea accounts. The leaf of each picker is best measured in the field, and, as loads are collected, brought to the factory by one or two men throughout the day. It entails a loss of time, and further a depreciation in the leaf, if it is kept long in a close mass in one basket, which is the case when each picker brings his or her leaf to the factory twice a day. The pickers are paid so much per basket, holding in any case 2-1/2 lbs. I find the most convenient plan is to give the mangee in charge of the pickers tickets of any kind for this, which tickets are changed for money in the evening. As each load of leaf comes in through the day it is weighed, and this gives a check on the tickets given by the mangee or mate. This is the meaning of the two columns in the form below, “tickets by leaf” and “tickets paid.”