Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-11-28
CENSUS AMONG FARMERS
A Bulletin of Instructions Nearly
Put in Circulation.
The Method Of the Bureau to Notify Agri-
cultural Workers Regarding the 1nfor-
nation Required-Facts Concern
ing Machinery, Crops and
Live Stock.

The census bureau has prepared a
circular which it will Distribute Through
all the agricultural districts in the
country. The document is a part of the
educational scheme adopted by the bu-
reau for the purpose of making all
farmers familiar with the character of
information the census enumerators
will, under the law, be entitled to re-
ceive. The circular ts now in the office
Of the government printer, and will soon
be distributed.
Census Supervisor Sanchez il con-
stantly receiving instructions from
Washington as to the scope of the In
CURRY to be made, and lis advised to
publish his instructions so thai the pub
lie may know what information is eX-
pected. The latest bulletin says:
THE first really valuable census of
agriculture in the United States was
taken in 1850, of the crops of 1S49. The
next enumeration of agriculture will be
taken i'm June, 1900, of the products OF
1899.
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On one schedule in the twelfth census,
as heretofore, each farm will be accord
ed q separate blank, the contents OF
which will mot be known to amy save
sworl officers of the department. NO
| names Will be published in connection
with information secured from the peo-
pie.
TAX assessors, collectors md equal
| izers cannot serve as enumerators, or
| have access Ito the census returns, or to
Dire information therein contained.
There are more than 5000, 900 farms,
pDamtatio ns, ranches, stock ranges and
market gardens in the United States, all
Of which, for census purposes, Will be
designated ais farms
"a farm is all the land cultivated or
held for agricultural purposes under
ume management, whether in a single
body or separate parcels.
"The emumerator will ask for he size
end value of each farm, the value OF
buildings, and THE aggregate value OF
all machinery, implements, vehicles,
harnesses, ETC., used thereon; the colo
or race of the occupant, and the amount
Of land owned and leased, respectively,
by said occupant.
HE will also ask for the acreage and
vaaue of each crop, and the acreage OF
Improved unimproved and irrigated
knds.
1.-THE designation each crop includes
all grains, cotton, corn, rice, sugar came,
sugar beats, sorghum, hay, clover, wild
grasses, gathered forage, flax, hemp
hops, peanuts, tobacco, seeds, nuts,
tropical fruits, small fruits, orchard
fruits, nursery and greenhouse stock,
broom corn, Irish POTATOES, sweet pota-
toes and yams, all vegetables, Including
the product of all family, truck and
market gardens, ETC.; also new or uh-
usual crops, when found.
THE enumeutator will ask for the
number and value of the live took OH
the farm June l, 1900, which will be re
ported under a number Of heads, sucf
as horses, colts, mules, asses. COWS
heifers, steers, calves, bulls, ewes, rams
lambs, swine, goats, chickens Qncludine
gutnea fowl), turkeys, geese, ducks
bees, etc.
'"The quantity and value of milk
cream, butter cheese, ~raisins, prunes
moHasses, syrup, sugar, eggs, beeswax
honey, wool. wine, cider, vinegar, dr1e'
and evaporated fruits, forest products
poultry and meat products, and, gener
ally, all articles made at home, or TO
vhe home, from farm materials during
1899 Will be called for by the enumer
ato1s.
III a person who, removes from
farm between the end of the crop yea
1899 and June /, 1900, will leave a write
record Of THE products and crops of tina
farm for 1899 where 1T will reach the ap
proprdate ~enumerattors, the statistics G
his operations for that year will not b
lost. He will be required to give tn
enumerator of the district In which h
lives ON June /, 1900, the acreage, vaau'
buildings, machinery, implements an
1--WE stock of the farm he them occupies
IF every farmer will begin ait once I
prepare a careful record Of all facH
which the enumeration Will be dnstruc'
ed to record in June, 1900, he will sax
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