Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-06-07
Farmers and the osnsus.

. | and ends May 31, 1890 Each state districts. There are 175 supervisors in all There are 42,000 enumerators who in all parts of the country will begin their work Monday morn. ing, June 2, 1890 Every farm will be visited before June 30, and the follow ing questions will be asked, keeping in mind that the figures you are to give nearly all pertain to the crops of 1879, and not to the growing crops of 1890:
 CD Your name as occupant of the farm. CD Are you owner, renter for money, or for share of the crops of the farm? (3) Are you white or black2 (4) Number of acres of land, improved and unimprovedf (5) Acres irrigated. (6) Number of artesian wells fiowingG CD Value of farm, buildings, implements, machinery and live stock. (S) Fenc es cost of building and repairing. (9) Cost of fertilizers. Q0) Labor: Amounts paid for labor, including board weeks of hired labor, white or black. CID Products Estimated value of all farm productions sold, consum- ed, or on hand for 1889. (12) Forestry: Amount of wood cut, and value of forest products sold CPD Grassland: Acres of each kind of grassland cut for hay or pastured; tons of hay and straw sold; clover and grass seeds produced and sold: silos and their capacity. (14) Sugar: cane, sorg- hum. maple and beet; sugar and mo- lasses; acres, product and value of each. Q5) Castor beans: acres. (16) Cereals barley, buckwheat, Indian corn, oats, rye, wheat acres, crop amount of each sold and consumed and value. CID Rice: acres, crop and value. (lS) Tobacco: acres, crop, amount sold and value. (19) Peas and beans: Bushels, and value of crop sold. (2O) Peanuts: Acres, bushels and value. (21) Hops: Acres, pounds and value. Fibers: 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, 1890; num- Der foaled ill 1889; number sold in 1889. (25) Sheep: number on hand June l, 1890, of "fine wool" "long" and Gall other;" number of lambs dropped i'll 1889 "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. (27) Goats: Number of Angora and common. (2S) Dogs: on farm June l, 1890. (2S) Neat Cattle: Working oxen, milch COWS, and other cattle on hand June l, 1890; number of pure bred, grade and common; calves dropped 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 for use in families; sent to creamery or factory; used on farm, 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. (3l) Swine: Number on
 hand June l, 1890; sold in 1889; con
 stunned on farm and died in 1889. (32'
 Poultry: Number each of chickens
 turkeys, geese and ducks on hand
 June l, 1889; value of all poultry pro
 ducts sold eggs produced, sold, and
 value in 1889. (33) Bees: Number O
 stands, pounds of honey and wax pro
 duced, and value (34) Onions Fielt
 crop-number of acres, bushels pro
 duced and sold, and value (35) Pc
 tatoes Sweet and Irish, bushels pro duced and sold. (36) Market Gar dens and Small Fruits: Number o
 acres in vegetables, blackberries, cran
 berries, raspberries, strawberries anC other small fruits, and total value o products in 1889. (37) Vegetables anC fruits for canning: Number of acres
 and products, in bushels, of peas ant beans, green corn, tomatoes, other veg
 etables and fruits. (3S) Orchards: Alp
 pies, apricots, cherries, peaches, pears , plums and prunes, and other orchart fruits; in each the number of acres crop in 1889, number of bearing trees . VI bACCS AOb OSdAAAe and value of all orchard products sold , (30) Vineyards: Number of acres il vines bearing and in young vines no r bearing products of grapes and rais , ins, and value in 1889.
 Besides these questions on the regu f lar Agricultural Schedule No ,, SuE
 erintendent Robert F. Porter has ol
 dered several special investigations i
 the interests of agriculture, anon
 which are yiticulture, nurseries, hol ists, seed and truck farms, semi-tropi fruits, oranges, etc, live stock on tn z great ranges and in cities and villages ( also the names and number of all tn : various farmers organizations, sucl | as ,agricultural and horticultural SC
 cieties, poultry and bee association
 farmers clubs, granges, alliance . wheels. unions leagues, etc.
 - In no part of the census work hay z the lines been extended more than i T the direction of agriculture, and N farmers will now cheerfully co-operat n with the enumerators and other o !, ticials in promptly furnishing the co v rect figures, more comprehensive r !, turns regarding our greatest industr :, will be obtained than ever before. $ Ripe Figs and Apricots.
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