Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-02-14
THE NEXT CENSUS.
Work of Taking it will Begin June l..

The following facts concerning the
census will he found interesting:
l. The finst really valuable census of
agriculture in the United States was
taken in 1850, Of the crops of lS49. The
next enumeration of agriculture will
he taken In June 1900, of the products
of 1899.
g Instead of recording several farms
on one schedule i'm the twelfth census
as heretofore, each farm will he accorded
a separate blank, the entries on which
will not be known to any save sworn
officers of the department. No names
will he published in connection with
information secured from the people.
8. Tax assessors, collectors and equal
iZers cannot serve as enumerators or
have access to the census returns, or to
the information therein contained.
There are more than 5000, 900
farms, plantations, ranches, stock
ranges aud market gardens in the
United States, all of which, for census
purposes, will be designated as farms.
5. A farm" is all the land cultivated
or held for agricultural purposes under
one management, whether in single
body or seperate parcels.
6. The enumerator will ask the size
and value of each farm, the value of
all machinery, implements, vehicles,
harness, ETC., used thereon, and the
amount of land owned and leased, re-
spectively, by said occupant.
Z. He will also ask for the acreage
and value of each crop and the acreage
imrroved and irrigated lands.
8. The designation leach crop" in
cludes all grains, cotton, corn, rice,
sugar cane, sugar beets, sorghum, hay,
clover, wild grasses, gathered forage,
flax, hemp, hogs. peanuts, tobacco,
seeds, nuts, tropical 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 un'
usual crop, when found.
8. The enumerator will ask for the
number and value of the live stock on
the farm June !, 1900, which will be
reported under u number of heads
such as horses, colts, mules, asses, cows
heifers, steers, calves, bulls, ewes, rams
lambs, swine, goats. chickens includ
ing guinea fowD. turkeys, geese, ducks
bees, etc.
10. He will also ask for the quantity
and value of milk, cream, butter, cheese
raisins, prunes, molasses, syrup, wine
eggs, vinegar, dred and evaporatet
fruits, forest products, poultry and mea
product and, generally, all articles mad
at home, or for the home, from farm
materials in 1899.
IL. Ifa person who moves from
farm between the end of the crop year
1899, and June l. 1900, will leaves writ
ten record of the products and crops Q
that farm for 1899, where it will reacl
the appropriate enumerator, statistic
of his operations for that year will nc
be lost. He will be required to Civ
the enumerator of the district in whic
he lives on June l, 1900, the acreag'
value, buildings, machinery, impl'
ments and live stock of the farm b
then occupies.
II. If every farmer will begin
once to prepare a careful record of a
the facts which the enumerator will
instructed To record in June, 1900, b
will save time for himself and ii
: officer and insure more accurate return
to the government.
Is. The twentieth century will b
gin ON Jan. /, 1901. Therefore Il
pending census will afford to the futu
generations a measure of the strengl
} and conditions of the United States
the tn reshold ofthe new hundretb- ye,
cycle For that reason every oI
should take an active interestin makiI
it as nearly perfect AS possible. Ifea'
farmer will make his own report pc
feet, the aggregated report for eve
community and for the nation will
: perfect.