Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-02-14
Htisfellaneous 8eadin9.
FARM STATISTICS.
The Census Department Gives Out Infor.
nation As to What Is Wanted.

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nation As to What Is Wanted.
The following advance instructions
with reference to agricultural statistics
have been received from the census
department for promulgation.
/. The first really valuable census Of
agriculture in the United States was
taken in 1850, of the crops OF 1S49.
The next enumeration of agriculture
will be taken in June, 1900, of the
products of 1899.
2. Instead of recording several farms
on one schedule in the twelfth census,
as heretofore, each farm will be ac'
corded separate blank, the entries
on which will not be known TO any
save sworn officers of the department.
No names will be published in connec'
ton with Information secured from the
people.
8. Tax assessors, collectors, and
equalizers cannot serve as enumera-
tors, or have access TO the census re-
turns, or to the information therein
contained.
4. There are more than 100000
farms, plantations, ranches, stock
ranges, and 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 a single
body or separate parcels.
6. The enumerator 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, res
peclively, by said occupant.
7. He will also ask for the acreage
and value of each crop, and the acre
age of improved, unimproved, and ir'
rigated 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, hops, peanuts, tobacco,
seeds, nuts tropical fruits, small fruits,
orchard fruits, nursery and greenhouse
stock, broom corn, Irish potatoes,
sweet potatoes and yams, all vegeta-
bles, including the product of all fami
ly, truck, and market gardens, etc. |;
also new or unusual crops, when
found.
9. The enumerator will ask for the
number and value of the live stock on
the farms June l, 1900, which will be
reported under a number of heads,
such as horses, colts, mules, asses,
COWS, heifers, steers, calves, bulls,
ewes, rams, lambs, swine, goats, chick.
ems Gncluding guinea fowl,) turkeys,
geese, ducks, bees, etc.
10. He will also ask for the quantity
and value of milk, cream, butter,
cheese, raisins, prunes, molasses, syrup.
sugar, eggs, beeswax, honey, wool,
wine, cider, vinegar, dried and evapor.
ated fruits, forest products, poultry
and meat products, and, generally, all
articles made at home, or for the home,
from farm materials in 1899.
II. If person who moves from a
farm between the end of the crop year
1899 and June l, 1900, will leave a
written record of the 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 he re-
quired to give the enumerator of the
district in which he lives on June
|, 1900, the acreage, value, buildings,
machinery, implements and livestock
of the farm he then occupies.
IL. If every farmer will begin al
once TO prepare careful record of the
facts which the enumerator will be in.
structed to record in June, 1900, he
will save time for himself and the Off
Ger, and insure more accurate returns
to the government.
13. The twentieth century will be-
gin on January l, 1901. Therefore,
the pending census will afford to future
generations measure of the strength
and condition of the United States al
the threshold Of the new hundred-year
cycle. For that reason everyone
should take an active interest in max
ing it as nearly perfect as possible. If
each farmer will make his own report
perfect, the aggregated report for every
community, and for the nation, will be
perfect.