The daily gazette., 1880-05-15
The cen.u. ss lsso.
SOME IDEA OF THE INFORMATION
PEOPLE WILL BE ASKED TO I'M
PART

SOME IDEA OF THE INFORMATION
PEOPLE WILL BE ASKED TO I'M
PART.
COL. VIM. G. Whiteley, U. s.
Census Supervisor for Delaware has
has received the blanks for local
canvasers and enumerators, and
the work will be commenced on
June lst. in Wilmington it must be
completed in two weeks and in the
country one month. The labors of
the enumerators will be voluminous
Ill the strictest sense of the word,
and they will require the active
cooperation of the people in general
to enable them to get through. Be
low will be found complete list of
the items of information the emu
merators are required to obtain
from the people:
IN THE CITY OF WILMINGTON.
Name of the person residing in the
house, name of the street and number
of the house.
Occupants of each ho.ssse, AID their
relationship to the principal resident,
with classification as 60 color, sex and
age of last birthday.
Civil condition, whether married,
single, widowed, divorced, or married
during the past year.
Professional occupation or trade of
each person in the house.
Condition of health of each person,
stating the sickness or disability where
such exists.
Educatlonal-state number of chill
dren who attend school during past
year, and how many persons cannot
read or write.
Nativity-Birth places of persons,
giving States or Territories Of the u.
s. or the country if of foreign birth.
FOR MANUFACTURES.
Name of corporation and the name of
the business conducted:
Capital employed, real and personal.
Greatest number OF hands employed
during the year; also, number OF males
ever IL, females over 10, children and
youth.
Number of hours of ordinary labor.
Average days wages of skilled me-
chanics and of ordinary laborers; total
amount paid in wages during the year.
Number of months IN operation on
full time, "a time, and 4 time; and also
Lumber of months idle.
Value of all material used in the bus
mess, aud the value Of manufactured
products for the year.
Power used. If water power, state
The name of the stream or river, the
height Of the fall, and the number, kind,
breadth in feet, revolutions per minute,
and horse power of the wheels. If
ers and the nnmber and horse power of
engines.
FOR FARMING LANDS.
Name of owner and tenant, the
amount of rent for land, and the rental
for share of products.
State number of acres, how many i'm
proved and how many unlmproved,
TGive values of land, improvements,
implements and live stock. Cost of
building and repairing andfertilizers dur
! lug 1879. Amount of wages aud other
items of labor Tor 1879. Estimated val
ue of all farm products sold, consumed
or on hand for 1879.
Grass lands, giving acreage and Seve-
raj minor statistics.
Neat cattle, their kind and grade with
number bought, sold, killed, stolen Or
strayed during 1876, ,and quantity of milk
sold, and butter and cheese sold.
Similar information for sheep, includ-
ing number of fleeces and the weight of
the sheep.
Number and kind Of swine on hand
June /, 1880. Same for poultry.
Cereals giving the kind, area and ex-
tent of the crop of each.
For vegetables, similar information.
Orchards, state the area occupied by
each kind of fruit, number of trees and
total value of products, 80
For nurseries, vine yards and market
gardens, give acreage and value of pro-
| ducts.
For bees give pounds of honey and
wax produced.
Forest prOducts-amount of wood cut
and value of all forest products sold or
consumed during 1879.
From the above it will be seen that the
numerators and canvassers have no
| light task before them and will need all
the aid and assistance people can render
| them.