Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-12-16
METHODS OF THE CENSUS.

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METHODS OF THE CENSUS.
Continued from last ueek.
But the facts of omission and
imperfection remain as before, and in
reality are reported to be worse.
The enumerators are restricted on one
side By the opposition of the farmers,
and on the other by the restraints of
the census office. TIE intent of
census to get at the number of domes-
tic animals kept is defeated by the
limitation that he shall take none not
son farms. IF sheep, hogs, cattle,
or horses are herd ed in yards, or kept
in stables, or roam on the commons
of village, they are excluded from
the count. With the recent great
growth Of villages and towns, and the
frequent herding, stabling, and yard
ing of all classes of domstic animals,
it is safe to estimate the numbers
''not on farms" is equal in Eastern
Pennsylvania II tho nrrbor ..on
60 ;, u1:h ~
i"i mo- WINCH % 'ne oniy h'iioet
taken in the census. As an example,
there is no day in the year in which
there are mot 100 000 horsac 5000
COWS, 50,OOO sheep, and $4,000 hogs
IN the county OF Philadelphia, yet the
census of 1870 gravely returns the
following as the ''live stock" of the
county of Philadelphia in that year:
Horses. 2dO5;" probable number, 100000
..9 9fBWs: horn 4l09' 10000
ed cattle, 14" $4,000
.. SSNiiSP' s4 g5S; :, S 90 GOO
And a. oil tboso 40
N feet as mncb 60 tho woat afton
laavino tho forn,s - 81 - ~
Vol, 5ofora 49, Ioe+ 49, So" -
wonId annsor tbo+ tba oonSnn ~
shonld stretcb ;tsoIf anornb - +ato
them The census olso DOS not Stoon
% low 90 - oornt uornor oottIo
onlv .sn.;I.b now:,s I'D .sw"rl, ;no
oven" the finest Durham bnu NAV
bonow n vo;n md not not aorn+aj
VIII tbot snhTmo one;al stun;d;tr
that ~, st;nIs - .bo n~bI,o ''~ rpruics
tb~onab III uoo+borS ong al o5nn;n;s
trat;o0s Tho low seots ont ..mr1aa 1919
$3.50 - tbo Iast ona and aoonnfnIIr
ronndio+es nino tantbo of 80 aotnaI
cottlo ~ onnn+U 81 ono bnnJroJ ond
th;rtynine sonare m;les lie Pb;ladnl.
Eo..tol., - IL
t.mmIos I'D $500, av;.tod bora -
aiaanooo 49, 80; :, 1914. "a
800 $50 ,o,,1d ronaI tho 1n,,,,4c
2 So, tbat nno oonld h fonnd 49,
now Sr;n al our barooS r. rou ~,
hnt snoro M mention IF tho ffty ~
;xtn r,,,Io 80 49, da;lr boal
oIono - tb Wv .traa ,ls '''' >' =" - '' >
IL Cbostar Dolouoro .na Mon+
aonary oannt;oa tho roturn Of I've
s9tools = 1e7o d;a ont ,roaad ono bo1t
49, &C., notraI - Ill., ;noIudod.
w wv " 1870" g. 49, s..,;iot 800 va
NV ~ w ;, nh;ol oI, "o
lHi"s oAo"' VIZ "io "ie
,l, a. REPRESENTATIVES p, u ,o eno
: Lnou ea5'lo, ne oGnsuS O. Iooo
=. - a'poa ue0 W pe equa,,y tn0i0" Tu pn
'nG !ely nlouesU au ~ NC
Iecllnlcai llnll' a1 Oh 'he eensu act
sero rlsluly s aane 4t TO- ana H. Is a
i".I ploSInP 'A1n Cnat III case iailheE ;
COWS OF sneeP nao al Ine no tt go'
OUT Vi Tue heio anu were On Ghs nlgh-
way 1hey "ou'o % eAciuoeo as mot
on farms -. .
IL Is true that IN one puphcatlon OF
the census OF .o'o an estimate IS made
OF "hofses ana cattle not upon farms'
ouV ehe results enere gwen are eSti-
mates by oFates' not distributed among
the counties, or properly identified aud
claimed as products OF agriculture;
nor 90 they refer at all to horned cat
tie not mlleh cows or working oxen;
nor are they In any degree adequate,
at least Tor pennsylvania. Persons
looking tor results relative to sheep or
wool, ind no mention OF the sheep
constantly driven to the great cities,
and always heroed there IN large num-