The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-26
FARMERS AND THE CENSUS.
The Questions Which Enumerators
Will Ask Them

The Questions Which Enumerators
Will Ask Them
The census year began June /, 1889. and
ends May 81, 1890. Each state has from
one to eleven supervisors districts. There
are us supervisors in ALL There are AZ, 200
enumerators, who in all parts of the country
will begin their work Monday morning.
June 2, 1890. Every farm will be visited
before June 80, 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:
o. Your name as occupant of the farm.
(2l Are you owner, renter for money or for
share of the crops of the farm! t9 Are you
white or blacks az Number of acres of
land, improved and unImproved. o. Acres
irrigated. 6l Number of artesian wells
flowing. "a Value of farm, buildings. i'm
plements, machinery and live stock. (9
Fences: Cost of building and repairing. (9l
Cost of fertilizers. 90 Labor: Amounts
paid for labor, including board: weeks of
hired labor, white or black. QD Products:
Estimated value of all farm produc-
tons sold, consumed, or on hand for
1882 az Forestry: Amount of wood cut.
and value Of all forest products sold. Q3
GraSslands: Acres of each kind of grass land
cut for hay or pastured; tons of hay and
straw sold; clover and grass seeds produced
and sold; silos and their capacity. Q4
Sugar: Cane, sorghum, maple and beet;
sugar and molasses; acres, product
and value OF each. Q5) Castor Beans:
Acres. 90 Cereals: Barley, buckwheat.
Indian corn, oats, rye wheat; acres
crop, amount of each sold and con-
sumed, and value. On Rice: Acres, crop,
and value. QS Tobacco: Acres, crop.
amount sold, and value. 90 Peas and
beans: Bushels, and value of crop sold.
(29 Peanuts: Acres, bushels, and value
CD Hops: Acres, pounds, and value. (22)
Fibers: Cotton, flax, and hemp; acres, crop,
and value. C23 Broom corn: Acres, pounds,
and value. CD Live stock: Horses, mules.
and asses; number on hand June l, 1890:
number foaled in 1899; number sold in
1889; number died in 1889. (25) Sheen:
Number on hand June /, 1880, of Zine wooi.n
'long wool" and ''all Others
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
Shorn spring of 1890 and fall of 1889. (20
Goats: Number of Angora and common.
t2Sl Dogs: On farm June l, 1890. (29 Neat
Cattle: Working oxen, milch COWS and
other cattle on hand June /, 1890; number
of pure bred, grade and COM
mon; calves dropped in 1889; cattle
sold in 1889, slaughtered for use on the
farm, and died in 1889. 800 Dairy: Milk
total gallons produced on farm: sold for use
in families; sent to creamery or 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 or
factory. Cheese-pounds made on farm
and sold in 1889. (31) Swine: Number on
surned on farm and died in 1889 (39 Poul-
try: Number each of chickens, turkeys.
geese and ducks on hand June l, 1889; value
OF all poultry products sold, eggs produced.
sold and value in 1889. 1881 Bees Number
of stands, pounds of honey and wax pro-
duced and value. C34) Onions: Field crop
Number of acres, bushels produced and
sold, and value. C95) Potatoes: Sweet and
Irish, bushels produced and sold. (36)
Market Gardens and Small Fruits; Number
OF acres in vegetables, blackberries, cram
berries, raspberries, Strawberries and
other small fruits, and total value
OF products in 1889. go Vegetables and
Fruits for Canning: Number of acres, and
products, In bushels, of peas and beans,
green corn. tomatoes, other vegetables and
fruits (SS) Orchards: Apples, apricots,
~ASi AASSt POaSuOo, pears. pluLlS duQ DTuQeS
and other orchard fruits; in each the num-
Der of acres, crop in 1889, number of bear
ing trees, number of young trees not bear
ing, and value of all orchard products sold.
$50 Vineyards: Number OF acres in vines
bearing and in young vines not bearing;
products OF grapes and raisins, and value
in 1889.
Besides these questions on the regular
agricultural schedule No. q Superintendent
Robert T. Porter has ordered several special
Investigations in the interests of agricul-
ture, among which are viticulture, nurs-
cries, florists, seed and truck farms, semi
tropic fruits, oranges, etc., live stock on the
great ranges, and in cities and villages; also
the names and number of all the farmers
organizations, such as agricultural and hor-
tlcultural societies. poultry and bee associa-
tons, farmers clubs, oranges, alliances,
wheels, unions, leagues. etc.
In no part of the census work have the
lines been extended more than in the direc-
ton of agriculture, and if farmers will
now cheerfully cooperate with the
enumerators and other officials in promptly
furnishing the correct figures more compre-
henslve returns regarding our greatest in
dustry will be obtained than ever before,