A professor from Korea is working on translating Joseph Schumpeter's
_Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy_ (Harper & Bros., 1950).
Schumpeter writes:

"For the moment, I will make the bold assumption that the rational
amount of freedom is experimentally found and actually granted so
that efficiency suffers neither from the unbridled ambitions
of surbordinates nor from the piling up on the desk of the minister
of reports and unanswered questions--nor orders of the latter
suggestive of Mark Twain's rules about the harvesting of potatoes."
(p.168)

The translator is seeking the source of Twain's rules about
harvesting potatoes for his reference notes.

Thanks,
Barb