The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-05-02


sweet and Irish potatoes, onions, and
market garden crops, will be taken in
acres and products-thus affording for
the first time basis for reliable reports
in future of these important specialties.
The live stock inquiry will be very
exhaustive. The stock is all counted
as the number on hand June l, 1890.
Horses aud mules will be kept separate,
and jacks and jennets, or Jack stock,
will be separated from the mules. The
quality of working oxen, cows, and
other cattle will be taken for the first
time, as we'll as their number, thus as
certaiung whether they are full blood
(recorded), grade (above half blood), or
common or native stock (below half
bloody. The census of sheep will also
for the first time be divided into
Merino Cine wooD, English breeds
(lorg or medium wooD. and "all other
sheep Spring lambs,'' now such an
important meat product, will be
enumerated for the first time. The
number of sheep killed by dogs Will be
ascertained for the first time in history,
and the dogs themselves will be count.
ed in city and country. The number
of feeces Of wool and their weights,
also of Angora and common goats, will
be included.
TIE dairy, now enc of our greatest
industries, will have special attention,
the questions asked covering the total
amount of milk produced, sold for con.
sumption in families, OR sent to cream
cry or factory. The amount of cream,
butter, and cheese produced and sold
on the farm will be ascertained, but the
butter and cheese made in creamerics
and factories will be taken in the Divi-
sion of Manufactures, and will be more
carefully counted than ever before.
:, Swine will not be forgotten, and the
number on hand, sold in 1890, consum.
ed on the farm in 1889, and died of
disease, will be wanted. The millions
in poultry will be inquired into quite
thoroughly, and for the first time the
different kinds will be asked tor, as
chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, the
value of poultry sold in 1889 aid the
number and value OF eggs produced
and sold. The number of stands Of
bees will be wanted for the first time,
also the amount and value of honey
and beeswax produced.
The great staples of wheat, corn. oats.
cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, fl X, hemp.
hops, and broom-corn will be wanted in
acres, bushels, pounds aud values And
even peanuts have grown to be a crop
Of such importance IN several States
that their acres and yield will also lie
obtained.
The great horticultural interests, that
are the main dependence of so many #
our people, and an interest that has not
previously had the attention its inpor.
lance deserves, will have special con-
sideration. Small fruits in all their
varieties, including cranberres, none of
which have ever been taken, will be
wanted in acres and product. The
same is true with vegetables and fruits
raised for canning. In orchards, only
apples and peaches have be, counted
before. This year it is hoped We shall
get, besides these two, pears, pums and
prunes, apricots and cherries-not only
the acres and number of trees, but the
''trees in bearing" and young trees not
bearing Vineyards and Viiculture
will not only have place on the regular
schedules Of acres in bearing vines,
vines not bearing, grape product in 1889,
raslns made (millions of pounds cow in
California every year, but special and
thorough investigation will be made
into this branch Of horticulture, that
now has over $15O,OOO,OCO of invested
capital. Special Investigations and full
reports will also be made upon the great
nursery interests-the starting point in
Northumberland into therapidly grow.
ing business of the florists. Also the
great truck.and seed-f4rms, and that
other golden branch that has grown so
iuxuriantly since the last census, and
never get accredited for-the oranges,
lemons, and other citrus and sub tropic
truits-will be duly enumerated.
While the above does net outline all
the questions relating to agriculture, it
will, l think. show that farmers are to
receive special attention, and that it
will be the fault of farmers themselves
it we do not this year get the most COM
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