Litchfield enquirer., 1880-05-20

they are to do is very important. Each emu merator is obliged to visit each house in his district and to collect his information person. ally, not by deputy. He has four chief sched- ules to fill out, relating respectively to popu- lation, agriculture, manufactures, and mor- tality. The schedule of population requires information of each persons name, age, color, sex, condition (married, widowed or divorced, or single) occupation, and various other per- sonal statistics The agricultural scedule em- bodies 100 questions, as follows, good many of which farmers will be puzzled to answer with any sort of accuracy: ~E
 The person who conducts 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 unimproved, the value of his farm, including land, fences buildings, farming implements, machinery, and live stock; the cost of building and repairing fences. the cost of fertilizers, the amount 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 1873: the horses, mules and neat cattle,
 
 milk disposed of, and the butter and cheese made in 1873; the number of sheep and lambs on hand June 1, 1880, and the number born, disposed of, slaughtered or iost.from different causes in 1879; ths amount of deeces; the number of swine on hand June 1, 1880; the number of poultry on hand June 1, 1880; the the eggs produced in 1779 a statement of the crops in 1879 of barley, 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 value of orchard pre- ducts of all kinds the value of produce sold from nurseries, the grapes sold and the wine made, the value of produce sold from market gardens, the honey and wax produced the amount of wool cut in forests aud the value of all forest product.
 The schedule for manufactures is equally elaborate. Much particularly is also called for in the statistics of mortality. There are besides supplemented and special schedules, involving vast deal more in the way of in- quiry. -
 We should expect little difficulty for the enumerator by way of wilful deception or downright refusal, but as to how accurate an estimate the farmer will be able to give of fence repaired, eggs produced, and other mat ters of which he has no accurate record and can only guess at, is matter about which the believer in statistics will have to exercise the largest faith.
 One new item we are glad to see included |: statistics of condition" No previous census has shown the proportion of married or wid. owed or single persons. We shall look over this portion of the enumerators work with special interest, as it will throw good deal of light on certain features of what is called the Woman Question.
 Sanford E. Chnrch, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, died suddenly of apo- plexy on Friday. Judge Church has been a prominent Democrat and a prominent oppo- nent of Mir. Tilden.