Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-10-02 | Page 2 | Pretty Girls to Have Jobs

PRETTY GIRLS TO HAVE JOBS I I Dairy Experts Declare i Them More lore Efficient I As Workers Worker's Y By NEA Service LONDON Oct 1 Get I.-Get 1 Get the piano stool out of the front parlor hire a pretty girl as milkmaid and bs ha b as assured as- as assured assured of a greater production of milk from more contented cows I IFor For efficiency has struck this coun coun- try In the interests of greater efficiency cy on the farm the National Institute Institute Institute tute of Industrial Psychology of Great Britain has Investigated operations on several farms In Kent and has come upon some unusual deductions One of them is the combination of piano stool and milkmaid The old three legged stool the In Investigators in- in investigators say Is Inefficient Milk Milk- Hikers ers should sit on stools that are ad ad- adjustable adjustable as to height so that they may be more efficient In the process of milking cows of varying heights Also milkmaids not men are arc rec rec- rec For women omen somehow know how to talk to the animals to cajole them into docility and rebuke them more curtly for their trouble- trouble Besides the women are more patient with the animals In Investigators In- In investigators tors say Besides milking theres there's the item of berry picking g. g which the Institute also studied There the investigators found much room for improvement For Instance they measured the time of movements in strawberry picking perhaps the thc most tedious of farm oc- oc Here they discovered ered that a fast worker spent 32 minutes out of an hour in picking 17 minutes In walk- walk walkIng walkIng walking Ing from plant to plant 85 minutes In fumbling at the leaves eaves and and the remaining 25 minutes minutes' in In ln taking his hi Joad load to w the sheds and returning As a result It Is recommended that the plants be grown as close together as RS possible that yielding high types be selected and that the packing sheds be placed at the most conven conven- convenient convenIent convenient I point on o the farm