The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-31
THE UNITED STATES CENSUS.
The Forty-two Thousand Enumerators to Com
mence Work Monday Morning.


The census year began June l, 1899, and
ends May 81, 1890. Each state has from
one to eleven supervisors districts. There
are 175 supervisors in all. There are 1900
enumerators, who in all parts of the coun-
try will begin their work Monday morning,
June 2, 1890. Every farm will be visited
before June 30, and the following questions
will be asked, keeping in mind that the
figures you are to give nearly all pertain to
the crops of 1889, and not to the growing
crops of 1890.
1-Your name as occupant of the farm.
2-Are you owner, renter for money, or
for share of the crops of the farm? 3-Are
you white or black! Numbers of acres
of land, improved and unimproved. s.
| Acres irrigated. 6-Number of artesian
wells flowing. 7-Value of farm, buildings,
implements, machinery, and livestock. s.
Fences: Cost of building and repairing.
Cost of fertilizers. 10-Labor: Amounts
paid for labor, including board; weeks of
hired labor, white or black. t11-Products:
| Estimated value of all farm productions
sold, consumed, or on hand for 1890. p
Forestry: Amount of wood cut, and value
of all forest products sold. 13-Grasslands:
Acres of each kind of grassland cut for hay
or pastured; tons of hay and straw sold
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sorghum, maple, and beet; sugar and mo-
lasses; acres product and value of EACH
15-Castor beans: Acres. 16-Cereals: Bar
ley, buckwheat, Indian corn, oats, rye,
wheat; acres, crop amount OF each sold and
consumed, and value 17-Rice: Acres,
crop, and value 1S-Tobacco: Acres, crop,
amount sold, and value. 19-Peas and
beans: Bushels, and value of crop sold.
l20-Peanuts; Acres, bushels and value.
l21-Hops: Acres pounds, and value. %
F'ibers: Cotton, flax, and hemp; acres,
crop, and value 23-Broom corn: Acres
pounds and value. 24-Live stock: Horses,
mules, and asses; number on hand June l,
1880; number foaled in 1889; number sold
in 1889: number died in 1882 25-Sheep:
Number on hand June l, 1890, of "ine
, WOOL" and "all other" number of lambs
dropped in 1899; 'spring lambs' sold in
] 1889: sold in 1889 other than ''spring
lambs" slaughtered for use on farm in
1889; killed by dogs in 1889; died from
other causes in 1889. 26-Wool: Shorn
spring of 1890 and fall of 1889. 21-Goats:
| Number of Angora and common. 2S-DogS
: On farm June /, 1890. 29-Neat cattle
: Working oxen, mich COWS. and other cattle
on hand June l, 1890; number of pure bred,
grade and common; calves droppe<. in 1889;
cattle sold in 1889, slaughtered for use on
the farm, and died in 1889. 30-Dairy
Milk-total gallons produced on farm; sold
LOT use III ldulll0S. S6lU W CISdllSrY OT
, factory; used on farm, including for butter
or cheese; used on farm in raising cream
. for sale, including for creamery or factory.
= | Butter-poundS made on farm and sold
~ in 1889. Cream-quarts sent to creamery
{ or factory; sold other than to creamery OF
factory. Cheese-pounds made on farm
r and sold in 1889. 3l-Swine: Number on
:. hand June l, 1890; sold in 1889; consumed
e on farm and died in 1882 32-Poultry
r, Number each of chickens, turkeys, geese
e and ducks on hand June l, 1889; value Of
o all poultry products sold; eggs produced
i sold, and value in 1889. 33-Bees: Mum
I Der of stands, pounds of honey and wax
+ produced, 'and value. 34-Onions: Ficlo
" crop-number of, acres, bushels produced
> and sold, and value. 35-Potatoes: Swee
Il and Irish, bushels produced and sold. So
IL Market gardens and small fruits: Number
IS OF acres in vegetables. backberries, straw
k berries, and other small fruits, and tota
e value of products in 1889. 37-Vegetabie.
u and fruits for canning: Number of acres
a and products, in bushels, of peas and beans
green corn, tomatoes, other vegetables an,
N fruits. 3S- Orchards: Apples, aprieots
!. cherries, peaches, pears, plums, and prunes
IN and other orchard fruits: in each the nun
- Der of acres, crop in 1884, number of bean
ing trees, number of young trees not bear
/, ing, and value OF all orchard products sold
: 30-Vineyards Nurnber OF acres in vine
= bearing ana IL young vines not bearing
"a products Of grapes and raisins, and valu
a, in 1889.
Besides these questions on the regula
to agricultural schedule No. 2, Superintend
Id emit Robert 2. Porter has ordered sewers
T. special Investigations in tue interests Q
agriculture, among which are viticulturt
nurseries. florists. seed and truck farms
semi-tropic fruits, oranges, etc, live stoc
lie on the great ranges, and in cities and vi
nj fha an n mn llnrs Cf
Ii. the various farmers organizations, such u
: agricultural and horticultural societie:
~ poultry and bee associations, farmer:
- clubs, oranges, alliances, wheels, union.
= leagues, etc.
n, In no part of the census work have tn
rs lines been extended more than in the diret
k, ton of agriculture, and If farmers will nov
G. cheerfully cooperate with the enumeration
H. and other officials in promptly furnishin
: the correct figures more comprehensive re
turns regarding our greatest industry wi
W. be obtained than ever before.