Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-03-24
About the Coming Census.
Some Valuable Inform alton for the GEN.
eraI Public to Digest

eraI Public to Digest
William r. Merriam, director of
the census, has given out the follow
ing information regarding the census
to be taken in June, which is inter
esting as well as instructive:
l. Complete federal enumerations
of the people have been made regular
ly every ten wears since 1890, but tile
first really valuable census of agricul-
ture in the United States was taken
in 1850, of the crops of 1s49.
2. The census of agriculture will
be taken in June, 1900, as the products
of 1899.
3. Instead of recording several
farms in one schedule, as heretofore,
each farm VIII be accorded a separate
blank i'm the twelfth census. so that
no farmer can see what his neighbor
has reported.
4. Each farm blank, as soon as fill
ed, will be enclosed in a government
portfolio for safe and secret keeping,
and will not be seen thereafter, or its
contents known, except by sworn Off
GERS of the census bureau.
5. Tax assessors, collectors and
equallzers cannot servs as enumera-
tors, or have access to the census re-
turns or the information therein con-
tained.
6. There are more than 5000. 900
farms, plantations, ranches, stock
ranches, and marble gardens in the
United States, all of which, for CEN
sus purposes, will be designated as
'sfarms''
:. A farm" is all the agricultural
land under one management, whether
in single body or in separate par
GELS.
g. The enumeratOr will ask for the
size and value of each farm. the value
of buildings and the aggregate value
of machinery, implements, vehicles,
harness, ETC., used thereon; the color
or race of the occupant, and the
amount of land owned and leased, re-
spectively, by said occupant.
9. He will also ask for acreage and
value of each crop, and the acreage
improved, unimproved and irrigated
lands.
10. The designation ''each crop"
includes all grains, cotton, corn. rice.
sugar cane, sugar beets, sorghum, hay,
clover, wild grasses, gathered forage,
fax, hemp, hops, peanuts, tobacco,
seeds, nuts, tropical fruits, orchard
fruits, nursery and greenhouse stock,
broom corn, Irish potatoes and vans,
all vegetables, Including the product
of all family, truck, market gardens,
of A I
found.
H. The enumerator will ask for
the number and value of the live
stock on the farm June i, 1900. which
will be reported under a number of
heads, such as horses, colts, mules,
asses, cows. heifers, steers. calves,
bulls, ewes, rams, lambs, goats, chick
ems Including guinea fowls, turkeys,
ducks, stand of bees, etc.
II. He will also ask for the milk,
cream, butter, cheese, raisinS, prunes.
molasses. syrup. sugar, eggs, beeswax,
honey, wool, wine, cider, vinegar,
dried and evaporated fruits, forest
products, and generally, all articles
made at home or for the farm from
farm materials during 1899.
13. A person who moves from
farm between the end of a crop year
1899 and June 1, 1900, should leave a
written record of the products and
crops of that farm for 1899 where it
will reach the enumerator. He will
also be required to give the enumera-
tor the district in which lie lives on
June l, 1900, the acreage, value, build
ings. machinery, implements, live
stock of the farm he then occupies.
H. Every farmer should begin at !
once to prepare a careful record of all |
the facts which the enumerator will /
record in June. 1900
15- In this preparation, the women |
and children of the household afford |
material aid. especially with refer |
ence to the poultry, eggs, butter, |