Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-06-03

Attended SCnOOl WlI0l0 the year.
Can not read.
Can not write.
Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane,
or idiotic.
Male citizens of the United States Of
twenty-one years of age and upwards.
Male citizens of the United States of
twenty-one years aud upwards, whose right
to vote is denied or abridged on other
grounds than rebellion or other crime.
SCHEDULE IMMORTALITY.
Number of the family. as given in the
second column of Schedule l.
Name every person who died during the
year ending Jue LIST, 1870 whose place of
abode at the time of death was in this fam
lily.
Age last birth day. If under one year,
give months in fractions, as 3-l2.
Sex-MAle (M.), female F..
Color-Whlte w. J; black (B.); mulatto
(M); Chinese. (Ch.); Indian I.).
Married On. or widowed (W.).
Place of bir.h, naming the State or Ter
ritory of the United States, or the country,
if Of foreign birth.
Father of foreign BIRTH.
Mother OF foreign birth.
The month in which the person died.
Profession, occupation or trade.
Disease, or cause of DEATH
SCHEDULE HI-AGRICULTURE.
Name or agent, owner or manager.
Acres Of Land-No. improved; No.
woodland; No. other improved.
Present Cash Value-Of farm, dollars |;
of farming implements aud machinery, dol
lars.
Line Stock, June let, ls7O-No. horses !;
No. mules and asses; No. mich cows; No.
working oxen; No. other cattle; No. sheep;
No. swine; dollars, value of all live stock.
Produce During the Year Ending June
LIST, lS70-Bush. spring wheat, bush. winter
wheat, bush. rye, bush. Indian corn, bush.
oats, bush. barley, bush. buckwheat, lbs.
rice, lbs. tobacco, bales $50 lbs.) cotton,
lbs. wool, bush. peas and beans, bush. Irish
pota oes, bush. sweet potatoes, dollars or
chard products, gallons wine, dollars prod
uce of market gardens, lbs. cheese, gallons
milk sold, tons hay, bush. clover seed, bush.
grass seed, lbs. hops, tons hemp, lbs. flax,
bush. fax seed, lbs. silk cocoons, lbs. ma
pie sugar, hhds 10000 cane sugar, gallons
molasses, bees, lbs. wax, lbs. honey, dollars
forest products, dollars value of home man.
ufactures, dollars value of animals slaugh.
tered or sold for slaughter.
Total Value-Do,lars estimated value of
all farm productions, including betterments
and addition to stock.
Name of corporation, company or indie
vidual producing to value of $500 annually.
Name of business, manufacture or product.
Capital (real and personally invested in the
business.
Motire P5rer-Kind of power (seam,
water, wind, horse or haad). If steam or
water, number of horse power.
Machines-Name or description. Mum.
Der of.
Arerage Number Of Hands Employed
Males above l6 years. Females above Is
years.
Total amount paid in wages during year.
Number of months in active operation, re-
ducng part time to full time.
Material Including Mil Supplies and
Fced)-Kinds, quantities, values (omitting
fractions of a dollsr).
p, objection Including Jobbing and Re-
pairing)-Kinds, quantities, values (omit-
ting fractions of dollar.
REMARKS.
Schedules l, Z, 3 and are taken from
the reports of heads of families, &C., obtain
ed by person al inquiry.
Schedule 5 is of character entirely dit
erent. 1t is of Social Statistics" and the
knowledge for it must be gained mainly by
an examination Of the records Of public in.
situations. and by correspondence with reli.
able persons in prominent positions in all
parts Of the district. Upon the officer in
charge of this branch it will devolve to col.
lect by counties the statistics of his district
embracing, in most cases, whole State)
respecting ten classes of subjects: /. Valu-
a,iou of property. real aud personal, therein
situated; 2. Public debt (local): 3. Taxa
ton, State, county and municipal; 4. Pau.
perism 5. Crime; 6. Libraries. public and
private I. Wages of labor, skilled and un-
skilled s. Newspapers and periodicals; 8.
Schools, public and private; 10. Religion,
churches, etc. A fine of $50 is imposed
by law upon each refusal to answer the
questions of the census taker; and that Off
Ger is in turn, strictly enjoined to be polite
Ia his manner Of interrogating.