San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-06-05
The Census. .

The CcnsuSs
There are four regular schedules
created by law. covering population,
agriculture, manufactures and morality
required in the work Of the census
enumerators, social statistics being left
to special agents.
The schedule Of population takes
June /, 1880, as the starting point,
and includes the following questions :
Name Of street; house number; the
name Of each person in family; the
color, age and sex Of each person the
relationship of each person to the head
of the family what persons are SINGLE
married, widowed or divorced. and who
if any, were married during the census
year, the occupation OF both males and
females; the number of months any
person has been unemployed during
the census year; q statement OF the
sickness or temporary disability Of any
person at the time of the enuluerator' 8
visit if there be any blind, deaf or
dumb, idiotic, insane, MANNED, Grip.
pied or bed.ridden persons in the fam :,
lily how many attended school within
the census year if there are any who
cannot read or write the place of birth
of each person and the places Of birth
of his or her father or mother. All
persons will be included in this emu
meration who are living on June 1st
1880, as we'll 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
occupation and ability to read and
write are not to be asked with regard
to children under ten years Of age.
The schedule of agriculture contains
100 questions. The person who CON
ducts a farm is to state if he is the
owner, or if he rents for money or q
share Of the products; what part of
his farm is improved and what unim-
proved, the valve of his farm, includ-
ing land, fences, buildings, farming
implements, machinery and live stock
the cost of building and repairing fences
the cost of fertilizers, the amount Of
Of farm wages. the number Of weeks OF
hired labor, excluding housework, the
estimated value of farm productions
and the average of grass lands mown
and the products harvested in 1879
the horses. mules, and neat cattle, aud
their products on hand June 1st 1880
the milk disposed Of and the butter
and cheese made in 1876; 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 amount Of feeces
the number Of swine on hand june
first 1880; tho number of poultry on
on hand June l, 1880; the eggs pro.
duced in 1879; statement Of the crops
in 1876 of barley, buckwheat, Iudiar
CORN, oats, wheat, rye, Canada pea
beans. fax in different forms, hemp
sorghum and maple sugar, and molas
ses, broom corn, hops, Irish potatoes
apples and peaches, with the total val
ue of orchard products of all kinds
the value Of produce sold from nurser
les, the grapes sold and the wine mad
the value of produce sold from th,
market gardens, the honey and wal
produced. the amount of wood cut il
the forests, and the values Of all fores
products. The schedule of manufac
lures, excludes boot and shoe factory
cheese and butter factories, fourinl
and grist mills, salt works, lumber mill
and saw mills. brick yards and tai
works. paper mills, coal mines. sgri
cultural implement works, and quar-
ries, which will be reported On a speci;
manufacturing schedule. 10 the ger
eral schedule of msnufaetnres the ter.
productive Industry" is used to de
nOie not oaly all factories and larg
works. but also the mechanical trades
as blscksniihing. carpspterine. an