Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-06-02
CENSUS INFORMATION.
A GLANCE AT THE INQUIRIES THAT WILL
BE PUT TO THE PEOPLE THIS MONTH.

Yesterday the actual work of emu
meration for the tenth census of the
United States was begun. Suggestions
and facts of interests to the to-be emu
merated, as well as the enumerators,
are appended:
The enumerator is prohibited by
law from delegating to any other per-
son his authority to enter dwellings
and to interrogate their inhabitants.
The work of enumeration must be done
by the enumerator in person, and cam
not be performed by proxy. The sched-
ule of population takes June l, 1880,
as a starting point, and includes the
following questions: Name OF street;
house number; the Iame of each per-
son in the family; the color, sex and
age of each person the relationship of
each person to the head of the family;
what persons are single, married, wild
owed or divorced, and who, if any,
were married during the census year
the occupation of both males and fe-
males; the number of months any per-
son has been unemployed during the
census year; statement of the sick
ness or temporary disability of any per-
son at the time of the enumerator's
visit; if there are any blind, deaf and
dumb idiotic, insane, MANNED, crippled
or bed-ridden persons in the family
how many attended school within the
census year; if there are any who can
not read or write; the place of birth of
each person, and the places of birth of
his or her father or mother All per-
sons will be included in this enumera-
tion who are living on June l, 1880,
as well as members of families who
may die after that time but children
who are born after that date will be
omitted. The questions as to occupa-
tion, and the ability to read and write,
are not to be asked with regard to chill
dren under ten years of age.
The schedule of agriculture contains
100 questions. The person who con-
ducts the farm is to state if he is own
er, or if he rents for money or share
of the products; what part of the farm
is improved and what unimproved, the
value of his farm, including land, fem
ces, buildings, farming implements,
machinery and live stock; the cost of
fertilizers, the amount of farm wages,
the number of weeks of hired labor, in
cluding house work, the estimated val
ue of farm productions, and the average
of grass lands mown and the products
harvested in 1879; the horses, mules
and neat cattle, and their products on
hand June l, 1880; the milk disposed
of, and the butter and cheese made in
1879; the number of sheep and lambs
on hand June l, 1880, and the number
born, disposed of, slaughtered or lost
from different causes in 1879; the num-
ber of swine on hand June |, 1880; the
number of poultry on hand June l,
1880; the eggs produced in 1879;
statement of the crops in 1879 of bar
lev, buckwheat, Indian corn, oats, rye,
wheat, Canada peas, beans, flax in its
different forms, hemp, sorghum, and
maple sugar and molasses, broom corn,
hops, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes,
apples and peaches, with the total val
ue of orchard products of all kinds; the
value of produce sold from nurseries;
the grape sold and the wine made the
value of produce sold from market gar
den the honey and wax produced; the
amount of wood cut in the forest, and
the value of all forest products.
The schedule of manufactures ex-
eludes boot and shoe factories, cheese
and butter factories, Touring and grist
mills, salt works, lumber mills and saw
mills, brick yards and tile works, paper
mills, coal mines, agricultural imple-
ment works and quarries, which will
be reported on special manufacturing
schedule. In the general schedule of
manufactures, the term productive
industry" is used to denote not only
all factories and large works, but also