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 LABOR namely that of. the efficiency of supervision. In the west, the queson of supervision and the means by which the most can be got out of the actual workers have been reduced to a science. The methods of appealing to the workers, of giving stimuli. to which they most readily respond of encouraging regularity of work, and so on, have been fully. studied and applied. In India, on hand, little has been of trying to get the differ little from those done, and best out which of are of very care- the other the usual methods Indian workers employed els- the latter where, although the mental attitude is very different. I do not wish to discuss the mater, however, further on general lines. My purpose to-day is rather to lay before you the scheme I have made for investigating the efficiency of Indian agricultural labor, and request criticism from a body of economists like to lay before you some which the present. of the first of the very great them, and in in the' west. I also wish results difficulty I have obtained, in spite I find in interpreting with figures ob.ined comparing .them with these The method which I have adopted, in co-operation one of my old students, Hr. R. K. Hody, in inquiries, is to analyse the factors which determine and measure the acml amount of work per- a man these are hve prepared principal kinds various agricutural Having which ill measurable. forms of agricultural or co-operating formed in a day by operstions. Most of made this analysis, can be used for I the work, and then oe o[ my assistants agenks eau collect data with regard to each of these measursble factors. To make such a study satisfactory it would bs necessary that the conditions of. labor should be liraRed, and the area concerned as