, 1879-12-08
Get Ready for the Census.

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Get Ready for the Census.
The production of an acre in one
year may be twice as much as in anoth-
er. This is literally the case with so
important g crop Us wheat, in a country
(England) claiming the best system of
agriculture in the world. It is essential,
then, that we should know whether q
given census crop has very low, o
medium, large or extraordinary yield.
Not few careless pulicists made the
unwarranted assumption. from the
census returns of corn in 1870, that the
culture of this staple was declining.
Returns of area, with production, would
have prevented such a mistake. This
important addition to the scedules for
the census of 1880 has been carefully
provided for, and will show the yield
per acre in different soils, climatic
belts, and under varied systems of
culture, enabling all to institute COM
differences. and apply the remedies.
In General Walkers circular to the
press, to societies and clubs and to
representative farmers, he urges the
widest publicity of the fact that all
cultivators will be expected to report
accurately the number of acres in each
crop and the production Of each. No
census can be approximately correct
without the intelligent and willing
cooperation of producers. As such a
degree of correctness is reasonably
expected iu this era of intelligence, and
is especially important to the farmer
himself, it is very desirable that all
should make early notes of the areas,
quantities and values to be reported Of
each crop as they are garnered or sold,
that the Information may be given with
promptness and accuracy.
Most of the crops to be reported are
those grown in the calendar year 1879,
as the cereals, peas and beans, rice,
cotton, potatoes. fruits, hay, hops.
hemp, tiay, sngar-cane and sorghum.
OF orchards, the number of acres and
gross value of products will be required,
with similar returns of vineyards and
also of small fruits. The returns Of
wool will De of the clip of the spring of
1880, except as to Texas and California,
where the fall clip of 1879 will be in
cluded. Maple sugar and maple mo-
lasses will also be the product of 1880.
There is another class of products
which are gathered week by week, as
they mature, and the year for these
will end Iay 81. 1880. These are
butter, cheese and milk sold, value of
animals slaughtered, acres and value Of
market garden truck, value of forest
products and value OF home manufac-
lures.
The census is to be taken in June,
1SSO-begun. completed and returns
made within thirty days. Every farm
er should study the precise require
ments of the law, have in readiness each
item of information, and present on the
first Of June, with the highest attain
able accuracy. the full returns neces-
sary to insure the best and most
complete agricultural census that has
ever been taken by any Government.
This should be the universal aim, and
it can only be realized by the intelli-
gent aid of the millions who have the
highest stake in the results.-N. Y
Tribune.
How TO Pour TEA.-There is more
to be learned about pouring tea and
coffee than most ladies are willing to
believe. If these decoctions are made
at the table, which is by far the best
way. they require experience, judgment
and exactness; if they are brought on
the table ready made, it still requires
judgment SO to apportion them that
they shall prove sufficient in quantity
for the family party, and the elder men,
bers have the stronger cups. Often
persons pour out tea, who, not being at
all aware that the first cup is the weak
est, and that the tea grows stronger as
you proceed, bestow the poorest cup
upon the greatest stranger and give the
strongest to the very youngest member
of the family, who would have been
better without any. Where several
cups of equal strength are wanted. you
should rour a little into each, and then
go back, inverting the order as You fill
them up, and then the strength will be
apportioned properly. This is SO we'll
understood in England, that an expert
enced pourer of tea waits till all the
cups of the company are returned to
her before she fills any a second time.
tnat all may share alike.-Honse and
Home.