Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-06-06
FARMERS AND THE CENSUS.
This is What Uncle Sans Agents
VIII Ask About.

and ends May 81, 1880. Each state has
from one 70 ii supervisors districts.
There are los supervisors in all, and A., 900
enumerators, who in all parts Of the coun.
try will begin their work Monday morning
June 2, 1880 Every farm will be visited
before June 30, and these questions will DO
asked, keeping In mind that the figures you
are TO give nearly all pertain to the crops of
1853, and NOT to the growing crops OF 1890;
/. Your name, as occupant OF the farm
g Are you owner, renter for money, or
for share of cropst
3. Are you white or blackl
4. Number OF acres of land, improved
and unimproyed.
.. Acres irrigated.
6. Number OF artisan wells flowing.
T. Value Of farm, buildings, implements
machinery and live stock.
8. Fences; Cost of building and repair
ing.
o. Cost of fertilizers.
10. Labor: Amount paid for labor, in
GLIDING board; weeks of hired labor, white
or black.
IL. Products: Estimated value of all
farm productions sold, consumed, or on
hand for 1889.
~. Forestry Amount of wood cut, and
value OF all forest products sold.
13. Grasslands: Acres of each kind Of
grasslands cut for hay or pastured; tons OF
hay and straw sold; clover and grass seeds
produced and sold; soils and their capacity.
IA. Sugar: Cane, sorghum, maple, and
beet; sugar and molasses; acres, product
aud value OF each.
Is. Castor beans: Acres.
IL. Cereals: Barley, buckwheat, Indian
corn, oats, rye, wheat; acres, crop,
amount OF each sold and consumed, and
value.
II. Rice: Acres, crop and value.
IS. Tobacco: Acres, crop, amount sold
and value.
10. Peas and beans: Bushels, and value
Of crop sold.
20. Peanuts: Acres, bushels and value.
81. Hops: Acres, pounds and value.
%. Fibers: Cotton, fax and hemp;
acres, crop and value.
%. Broom corn: Acres, pounds and
value.
"a. Live stock: Horses, mules and
asses; number on hand June /, 1890; num-
Der foaled in 1889; number sold in 1889;
number died in 1889.
IS. Sheep: Number on hand June 1,
1890, of Zine wool, " "long WOOL" and ''all
"spring lambs" sold in 1889; sold in 1889
other than 'spring lambs;" slaughtered for
use on farm in 1889; killed by dogs ia 1889
died from other causes in 1889.
26. Wool: Shorn spring of 1890 aud fall
Of 1889.
81. Goats: Number of Angora and
common.
% Dogs: On farm June l, 1890.
90. Neat Cattle: Working Oxen, mich
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 farm, and died
in 1889.
80 Dairy: Milk-total gallons produced
on farm; sold for use in families; sent TO
creamery or factory; used on farm includ-
ing for butter or cheese; used on farm in
raising cream for sale, including for cream
cry or factory. Butter-pounds made on
farm land sold in 1859, Cream-quarts
sent to creamery or factory; sold other
than TO creamery or factory. Cheese
pounds made on farm and sold in 1889.
81. Swine: Number on hand June /, 1890;
sold in 1889; consumed on farm and died in
lSS9.
30. Poultry: 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.
80. Bees: Number OF stands, pounds Of
honey and wax produced and value.
81. Onions Field crop-number of acre $
bushels produced and sold, and value.
35. Potatoes; Sweet and Irish, bushels
produced and sold.
SO. Market gardens and small fruits
Number of acres in vegetables, blackber-
ries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries
and other small fruits, and total value OF
products in 1889.
81. Vegetables aud fruits for canning
Number OF acres, aud products in bushels,
of peas and beans, green corn, tomatoes,
other vegetables and fruits.
80. Orchards: Apples, apricots, che rries,
peaches pears, plums, and prune5, and
other orchard fruits; in each the number
of acres, crop in 1889, number OF bearing
trees, number OF young trees not bearing,
and value Of all orchard products sold.
80. 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. 3 Superintend-
emit Robt. =. Porter has ordered several
special Investigations in tho interest OF
agriculture, among which are viticulture,
nurseries. florists, seed and truck farms,
semi tropic fruits, oranges, etc, live stock
on the great ranges, and in cities and vii
lagos also the names and number OF oil
the various farmers organizations, such as
Agricultural and Horticultural societies,
Poulty and Beo Associations, 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 iffarmers will now
cheerfully cooperate with the enumerators
and other officials in promptly furnishing
the correct figures more comprehensive
returns regarding our greatest industr"
will be obtained than ever before.