The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-06-12
NO. IL.
Farmers and the CENSUS.

There are 175 supervisors in all. There
are a, 900 enumerators, who in all parts
OF the country commenced their work
Monday morning, June 2, $780, 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:
~ Your name as occupant of the farm.
~ Are you owner, renter for money, or
for share of the crops of the farm (3)
Are you white or black? (4) Number of
acres OF land, improved and unimprov-
ed. (5) Acres irrigated. co. Number of
artesian wells flowing. ~ Value of
farm, buildings, implements, machinery,
and live stock (S) Fences Cost of
building and repairing (y Cost of fer
tilizers. Q0 Labor. Amounts paid for
labor, including board ; weeks of hired
labor, white or black. ID Products
Estimated value of all farm productions
sold, consumed, or ON hand for 1889.
| Q2) Forestry: Amount of wood cut, and
value of all forest products sold. Q3)
Grass lands: Acres of each kind of grass
land cut for hay or pastured tons of
hay and straw sold clover and grass
seed 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. Q6) Cereals Bar
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wheat acres, crop, amount of each sold
and consumed, and value. 40 Rice:
Acres, crop and value. Q9) Tobacco
Acres crop, amount sold, and value. Q9)
Peas and beans bushels and value of
crop sold. (s0) Peanuts: Acres, bushels
and value. (sD Hops: Acres, pounds,
and value. (22) Fibers Cotton, flax,
and hemp acres, crop, and value (23)
Broom Corn 4: Acres, pounds, and value.
(24) Live Stock: Horses, mules, and
asses; number on hand June 1, 1890;
number sold in 1889; number died in
1889. (25) Sheep: Number on hand
June 1, 1890, of fine wool, ''long WOOL"
and "all other y number of lambs drop
ped in 1889; "spring lambs sold in 1889;
sold in 1889 other than 'spring lambs;''
slaughtered for use on farm in 1882 kill
ed by dogs in 1889; died from other
causes in 1889. (26) Wool: Shorn spring
of 1890 and fall of 1889. (2D Goats:
Number of Angora and common. (28)
Dogs On farm June 1, 1890. (29) Neat
Cattle: Working oxen, mich cows. and
other cattle on hand June 1, 1890; num-
Der of pure bred, grade and common,
calves dropped in 1889; cattle sold in
1899, slaughtered for use ON the farm,
and died in 1882 (3O) Dairy: Milk
total gallons produced on farm; sold for
use in families sent to creamery or fac
tory; used on farm. including for butter
or cheese used on farm in raising cream
for sale, including for creamery or facto-
ry. Butter-pounds made on farm and
sold ia 1889. Cream-quarts sent to
creamery or factory sold other than to
creamery or factory. Cheese-pounds
made ON farm and sold in 1889. (3D
Swine: Number ON hand June 1, 1890;
sold in 1889; consumed ON farm and died
in 1889. (32) Poultry: Number each of
chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks on
hand June 1, 1890; value of all poultry
products sold; eggs produced, sold. and
value in 1889. (33) Bees: Number of
stands, pounds of honey and wax pro-
duced, and value ga Onions Field
crop-number of acres, bushels produced
| and sold, and value. (35) Potatoes:
Sweet and Irish, bushels produced and
sold. (36) Market Gardens and Small
Fruits Number of acres in vegetables,
blackberries, cranberries, raspberries,
Strawberries, and other small fruits, and
total value of products in 1889. $50
Vegetables and Fruits for Canning:
Number of acres, and products in bush
els, of peas and beans, green corn, toma-
toes other vegetables and fruits. 1883
Orchards Apples, apricots, cherries,
peaches, pears, plums, and prunes, and
other orchard fruits; in each the num-
Der of acres, crop in 1889, number of
bearing trees, number of young trees not
bearing, and value of all orchard pro-
ducts sold. (39) 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. 2, Superin-
tendent Robert p. Porter has ordered
several special investigations in the in
terests of agriculture among which are
Viticulture, Nurseries, Florists, Scotland
Truck Farms, Semitropic Fruits, Or
anges, etc, Live Stock on the great
ranges, and in cities and villages also
the names and number of all the various
farmers organizations, such as Agricul-
tural and Horticultural Societies, Poul-
try and Bee Associations, Farmers
Clubs, Oranges, Alliances, Wheels, I'm
ions, Leagues, etc.
In no part of the census work have the
lines been extended more than in the di-
rection of agriculture, and if farmers
will now cheerfully cooperate with the
enumerators and other officials in
promptly furnishing the correct figures
more comprehensive returns regarding
our greatest industry will be obtained
than ever before.
Lord Bute's mansion near rRothsay cost
S9, 100000. 1t is the costliest residence
in the world
The late j. S. Morgan bequeathed to
each employee of his banking hous
sum of money equal to one years sal
airy.
Bronson Howard has been paid about
$4,000 in royalties since his 'sShe nan
doah' was produced in September, 1889.
He received $4,000 for Young Mrs.
Winthrop" and got about the same
amount for his Henrietta.
Representative Burrows is one of the
finest looking men in Congress. He is
six feet two inches tall, weighs over
200 pounds, and has a voice that pene
trates to every corner of the vast cham
Der in which the house sits.
Senator Beck made his will nearly
thirty-five years ago, and most of those
mentioned in it ard dead. One feature
OF it is that the husbands of his daueh.
tiers should have no right to spend any
part OF the requests to the daughters.