The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-04-06
Gathering The Census.

absolutely nothing to an efficient ma
chine, employing about three thousand
men in Washington and about fifty
thousand elsewhere in the country, is
difficult task, and entire success is
oat of the question. The Office natur-
ally compares itself with the stage of
preparation attained at the same period
ten years ago and tried by this test, it.
has gained several months on its pre-
decessor. One OF the problems before
it is how to put in the time thus Sc
cured in such way as most to benefit
the Census.
| In the Agriculture Division the need
Of preliminary work is perhaps as great
as anywhere in the Census Office.
Farmers. as class, do not keep their
accounts as we'll as manufacturers,
and the returns from farmers may
occasionally include serious errors
which trained eye will at once de-
tact. Hence the farm schedules must
be examined and such errors corrected
before the tables can be made up from
them with safety. If a farmer report
that his land sown to wheat was ten
acres and the yield four thouaand bus
heels, it is clear that an average yield
of four hundred bushels to the acre is
incredible, and must be rejected or
corrected in accordance with the prob
abilities. Sometimes the truth can
be made out by an expert from COM
parison with entries in other parts Of
the schedules; sometimes correspOn-
dence must he opened to settle the
doubt. All this ranks under the gen.
e-al head OF verifying the schedules
and the Agriculture Division plans TO
give all the time possible to the work
verifying each of the millions OF farm
schedules. To accomplish this in the
time allowed, the work of several hun
dred clerks will be required, aud they
must have hard and fast rules to gu de
them.
For example, they mi ght be tod !:
| When the wheat reports show pro-
duct of over forty bushels to the acre
they are suspicious and must be laid
aside Tor an expert to pass upon.
But any such rules must vary with
the section of the country. A yield
OF twenty bushels to one section might
be more questionable than yield of
forty bushels in another. Hence the
division must fix in advance what is
the range OF reports in each part of
the country and for each crop that
may be accepted as probable OH their
face and not requiring special exami-
nation. TO get the limits of probable
ity for this purpose for each county
in the United States, that's the max
imum and minimum yield and the
maximum and minimum price which
may be accepted without veriication,
is the object of an extensive cores
pondence now being carried on by the
Agricultural Division under the direc-
ton of Mr.. L. G. Powers.
If the farming public will continue
to cooperate with the heartiness al
ready displayed, this effort will result
in moro trustworthy census of farms
than has ever been taken. Farmers,
as class, are less able to cooperate than
the representatives of any other
great industry. Hence the Census
Office can do more for them than it
Can for centralized lines of business,
which can and do make their own in
vestigatlons, and it will do its best to
present full and accurate photograph
of this leading occupation. The di.
rector of the Census urges every one
interested to aid the work.
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nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole sur
face over which it diffuses ITSELF Druggists
sell the Soc. size; Trial size by mail, 10
cents. Test it and you are sure to continue
the treatment
Announcement.
To accommodate those who are partial
to the use of atomizers in applying liquids
into the nasal passages for catarrhal Mou-
65es, the proprietors prepare Cream Balm in
liquid form, which will be known as Ely's
Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the
spraying tube is rs cents. Druggists or by
mail. The liquid form embodies the med
icinal properties of the solid preparation.