The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-28
CENSUS TAKERS NAMES READY
LIST OF APPOINTMENTS TO GO TO
WASHINGTON THIS WEEK.

The Names of Enumerators VIII Not
he Made Public Until the List Has
Been Approved by the bureau.
Supervisor Blum Permitted TO Give
out no Information Concerning
the Appointments Until They Have
Been Approved-The Census Blu
reau Now Getting Dots From the
Farmers.
Census Supervisor Harry Blum will in
a few days forward to Washington the
list of appointees selected by him as CEN
sus enumerators for the First Congress
sional district. There will be 1873 names
on the list, of which SO will be for Chat
ham county and As of these for Savan-
nah.
Capt. Blum said yesterday that though
he had practically completed his selec-
ton of enumerators, he was not at lib
erty to give out any Information what
ever as to the appointments, either as to
name, sex or color. When the list is
sent back from Washington approved the
appointments will be made public, but not
before.
1t is practically certain that there will
be some negro appointments on the list.
Capt. Blum said some time ago that his
plan was to appoint cQlored enumerators
in districts where negroes are in the ma
jority and white enumerators where
whites are in the majority, and it is pre-
sumed that this plan has been followed.
The enumerators will not begin work
until June /. The city enumertors are
required to complete their work within
two weeks. while those in the country
are allowed thirty days. The pay of
enumerators is expected to average 50 a
day. This is pretty fair pay for young
men who have their time on their hands,
but as the time is short, there will be no
fortune in it for any one.
The census bureau is now carrying on
an extensive correspondence with farmers
throughout the country for the purpose
of ascertaining the average yields of the
various crops in the different sections of
the country in order to establish standards
for the guidance of the bureau in check
ing up the returns as to farm yields and
acreage division.
pared and printed on different colored
paper in order that they may be readily
distinguished one from another. One of
them covers ordinary garden vegetables,
a second covers fruits. and the third the
great staple field crops. Each asks about
the units of measure employed and the
net price realized, end the two more inn
portant schedules, those for staple field
products and for vegetables, ask. for the
highest and lowest yield of each crop
per acre. These schedules are being mail
ed TO prominent farmers all over the
country and in many instances returns
have already been received. When the
returns have been received and tabulated,
scheme will be made from them of what
is to be accepted as correct in each case
and what is to be probed farther The
only aim of the office is to get what was
really the intention OF the farmer In an
swering the questions. If the presumption
is strongly against his meaning what the
schedule says the office will try to learn
by correspondence from the Supervisor,
or the enumerator, or the farmer him
self what the real facts were.
If the farming public will continue to
cooperate with the heartiness already
displayed, this effort will result in a
more trustworthy census of farms than
has ever been taken. Farmers, as a class,
are less able to cooperate than the rep
resentatives of any other great industry
Hence the census office can do more for
business, which can and do make their
own Investigations, and IL viii do its best
to present full and accurate photograph
of this leading occupation. The director
of the census urges every one interested
to aid in the work