The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-02-09
FACTS ABOUT THE CENSUS.
what Is Contained in the Agricultural
Schedule.

What Is Contained in the Agricultural
| Schedule.
| /. Complete Federal enumerations
Of the people have been made regularly
every ten years since 1900, but the first
really valuable census of agriculture in
the United States was taken in 1850, of
the crops of 1849.
2. The next census of agriculture
will be taken in June, 1900, of the pro-
| ducts of 1899
g. Instead of recording several farms
on one schedule, as heretofore, each
farm will be accorded separate blank
in the twelfth census, so that no farmer
can see what ais neighbor has reported.
4. Each farm blank, as soon as filled
will be enclosed in government port
folio for safe keeping, and will not be
seen thereafter or its contents known,
except by sworn officers of the census
bureau.
5. Tax assessors, collectors, and
equalizers cannot serve as enumerators,
or have access to the census returns, or
to the information therein contained.
6. 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 farms"
z. A "farm" is all of the agricul-
tural land under one management,
whether in a single body or in separate
parcels.
g. The enumerator will ask for the
value of each farm, the value of build
ings, and the aggregate value of all ma
chinery, implements, vehicles, har-
nesses, etc used thereon; the color or
race of the occupant, and the amount
of land owned and leased, respectively
by said occupant.
0. He will also ask for the acreage
and value of each crop, and the acreage
of improved, unimproved, and irrigated
lands.
10. 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 vege-
tables, including the product of all
family, truck and market gardens, etc.;
also new and unusual crops when
found
II. The enumerator will ask for the
number and value of the live stock on
the farm June LIST, 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, chickens. (includ-
ing guinea fowl, turkeys, geese, ducks,
stands of bees, etc.
12. He will also ask for the milk,
cream, tutter. cheese, raisins, prunes,
molasses, syrup, sugar, eggs, beeswax,
honey, wool, wine, cider. vinegar, dried
and evaporated fruits, forest products,
and generally, all articles made at
home. from farm materials during 1899.
10. A person who moves from farm
between the end of the crop year 1899
and June LIST, 1900, should leave writ
ten record of the products and crops of
that farm for 1899 where it will reach
the enumerator. He will also be re-
quired to give the enumeration of the
district in which he lives on June LIST,
1900, the acreage, value, buildings, ma
chinery, implements, and live stock of
the farm he then occupies
IA. Every farmer should begin at
once to prepare careful record of all
the facts which the enumeration will be
instructed to record in June 1900.
10. In this preparation, the women
and children of the farm household can
afford material aid, especially with
reference to the poultry, eggs, butter,
cheese, fruits, vegetables, etc, con-
sumed or sold or traded to the local |
dealer or to others.
Is. The twentieth century will begin !
on January 1st, 1901. Therefore, the |
pending census will afford to future
generations 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 1T as
nearly perfect as possible. If each |
farmer will make his own report per-
feet, the aggregated report for every
community, and tor the nation, will be
perfect.
II, For information concerning the
schedule for Agriculture, address Hon.
William Il. Merriam, Director, Wash
ington, d. G.
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