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CENSUS OF CROPS.
The Next Enumeration viii Be Taken
in June, 1900, Of the Prod
ucts of 1899.

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agriculture in the United States was
taken in 1850, OF the crops OF l849.
The next enumeration OF agriculture
will be taken in June, 1900, of the prod
ucts Of 1899.
Instead Of recording several farms on
one schedule in the Twelfth census, az
heretofore, each farm will be accorded
a separate blank, the entries on which
will not be known to any save sworn
officers Of the department. No names
will be published in connection with
information secured from the people.
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 5 900, 000 farms,
plantations, ranches, stock ranges, and
market gardens in the United States,
all of which, for census purposes, will
be designated as farms"
A farm" is all the land cultivated
or held for agricultural purposes under
one management, whether in a single
body or separate parcels.
The enumerator will ask for the size
and value OF each farm, the value OF
buildings, and the aggregate value OF
ali machinery, implements, vehicles,
harnesses, ETC., used thereon; and the
amount Of land owned and leased, re-
spectiyely, by said occupant.
lie will also ask for acreage and
value of each crop, and the acreage OF
improved, unimproved and irrigated
lands.
The designation leach crop" in
cludes all grains, cotton, corn, rice,
sugar cane, sugar beets, 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 po-
tatoes, sweet potatoes and yams, all
vegetables, including the product of all
family, truck, and market galdens.
ETC.; also new or unusual crops, when
found.
The enumerator will ask for the
number and value of the live stock ON
the farm June / 1900, which will be
reported under number of heads,
such as horses, colts, mules, asses,
cows, heifers, steers, calves, bulls,
ewes, rams, lambs, swine, goats, chick
ems (including guinea fowl), turkeys,
geese ducks, bees, etc.
He will also ask for the quantity and
value OF milk, cream, butter, cheese,
raisins. prunes, molasses, sirup, sugar,
eggs, beeswax. honey, wool. wine,
cider, vinegar, dried and evaporated
fruits, forest products, poultry and
meat products, and generally, all ar
ticles made at home, or for the home,
from farm materials in 1899.
II a person who moves from a farm
between the end OF the crop year 1899
and June /, 1900, will leave written
record OF the products and crops of
that farm for 1899 where it will reach
the appropriate enumerator, the statis-
tics for his operations for that year will |
not be lost. lie will BIZ required to
give the enumerator of the district in |
which he lives on June |, 1900, the |
acreage, value, buildings, machinery,
implements, and live stock of the farm |
he then occupies.
If every farmer will begin at once to
prepare careful record of all the facts |
which the enumerator will be in
stuoted to record in June, 1900, he |
will save time for himself and the Off
Ger, and insure more accurate returns |
to the government.
The twentieth century will begin ON
January, |, 1901. Therefore, the pend
ing census will afford to future genera
tions measure of the strength and
condition OF the United States at the |
threshold of the new hundred year
cycle. For that reason everyone should
take an active interest in making it as
nearly perfect as possible. II each
farmer will make his own report per-
feet, the aggregated report for every
community, and for the nation, will
be perfect.
Spokane is to send a formal invita-
tion to President Mckinley to visit the
town in October, when, it is said, he
will come to the Pacific coast.
North Yakima merchants are not
worried because mild winter has left
heavy stocks of woolen goods ON their
hands; the price ON woolens has ad-
vanced 25 per cent in the past three
months.
Thursday 100 horses were shipped
from Walla Walla to Vancouver, says
the Walla Walla Union. The animals,
together with number of other horses,
will be transported to the Philippines
for cavalry use. No more horses will
he purchased for the government in
Walla Walla at the present time.
Blanche Dewey, l5-year-old girl of
Snohomish county, made complaint
against her father, charging him with
criminal assault upon her, and on the
witness stand swore that the complaint
was false and that there was no ground
for it. Then she was arrested for per.
jury, and, it is said, will be sent to the
reform school.
George Gross, at Junction City, has
a hog that weighs 525 pounds.
G.. r. Hunt is about to build new
barn on his Tillamook dairy ranch, for
which as, 900 feet OF lumber will be
required.
Telegraph, telephone and electric
have appealed to the author
ties of Pendleton to protect them from