Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-02-15
The TWELFTH CENSUS.
Interesting Facts about the
Coming Report.

Ii will Be The Most Complete One Ever
Made-Especiaily Valuable to Farm
ers-Information will be Definite but
il will Not be Devulged by Census
Officers Farmers should DO
to be Ready For it.
|. The first really valuable Census
of Agriculture in the United States
was taken ia 1850, Of the crops Of
1910. The next enumeration of Agri-
culture will be in June, 1900, of the
products of 1899.
}. Instead of recording several
farms on one schedule IN the Twelfth
Census, as heretofore, each farm will
be accorded a separate blank the en-.
/ tries on which will not be known TO
any save sworn officers of the Depart
ment. No names will be published
in connection with information secur-
ed from the people.
! 3. Tax assessors, collectors, and
I equali2ers cannot serve as enumerators
or have access to Census returns, or TO
/ the information therein contained.
1. There are more than 5000, 900
farms, plantations, ranches, stock
ranges, and market gardens in the
/ United States, all of which for Census
purposes, will be designated as
s'farms.''
5. A farm is all the land cult-
waited or held for agricultural purposes
under one management, whether in a
single body or separate parcels.
6. The enumeration Will ask for
| the size and value Of each farm, the
value of buildings and the aggregate
value Of all machinery, implements,
vehicles, harness, etc, used thereon;
and the amount Of land owned and
leased, respectively, by said occupant
I. He will also ask for the acreage
aud value Of each crop, and the acre
age of improved, unimproyed, and
irrigated lands.
| s. The designation, each crop, in
cludes all grains, cotton, corn, rice,
sugar cane, 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 potatoes and yams, all
vege tables, including the product of
all family truck; and market gardens
etc, also new or unusual crops when
| found.
| 9. The enumeratOr will ask for the
number anu value Of the live stock on
the farm June /, 1900 which will be
reported under number OF heads,
such as horses, colts, mules, cows.
| heifers, steers, calves, bulls, ewes,
rams, lambs, swine, goats, chickens
| Gncluding guinea fowl turkeys, geese
| ducks, bees, etc.
10. He will also ask for the guam
! tity and value of milk, cream, butter
cheese, ralsins, prunes, molasses, syr-
up sugar, eggs, beeswax, honey, wood,
cider. wine, vinegar, dried and evapo-
rated fruits, forest products, and gen.
orally all articles made at home, or
! for the home, from farm materials in
! 1S99
II. If a person who moves from
| farm between the end of the crop year
1899 and June l, 1900, will leave
written record Of their products and
crops Of that farm for 1899 where it
will reach the appropriate enumerator
the statistics Of his operations for
that year will not be lost. He will
be required to give the enumeration of
the district in which he lives on June
l, 1900 the acreage, value OF buildings,
machinery implemdnts, and live stock
of the farm he then occupies.
II. If every farmer will begin at
once to prepare careful record of all
the facts which the the elumerator
will be instructed to record in June
1900 he will save time for himself and
the officer and insure more accurate
returns to the Government.
| 10. The twentieth century will te-
gin on January /, 1901. Therefore,
the pending Census will afford to flu
ture generations measure of the
strength and conditions of the United
States at the threshold of the new
hundred year cycle. For that reason
everyone should take an active inter
est IN making it as nearly perfect as
possible. If each farmer will make
his own report perfect, the aggregate
report for every community and for
the nation will be perfect.
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