Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-02-17
COMING CENSUS REPORT
Each Farm to Be Listed and
Reported Singly by the
Enumerators.
FULL AND ACCURATE INFORMATION.
The Work When Completed
Will BE Full of Interest
to All Glasses.

ino urss really Valuable census OF
Agriculture taken in the United
States was in 1850, of the crop OF
lS49. The next enumeration of Ag-
riculture will be taken in une, 1900,
of the products of 1899.
Instead of recording several farms
on one schedule in the Twelfth Cen.
sus, as heretofore, each farm will be
accorded q separate blank, the en-
tries on which will not be known to
any save sworn officers of the De-
partment. No names will be pub
lished in connection with the infor-
nation secured from the people.
Tax assessors, collectors. and equal
izers can not serve as enumerators,
nor have access to the Census re-
turns, nor to the information therein
contained.
There are more than 5000, 900
farms. plantations, ranches, stock
ranges, and market gardens in the
United States, all of which, for Cen
sus 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 all machinery, implements, vehi.
cles, harness, etc., used thereon; and
the amount of land owned and leased,
respectively, by said occupant.
He will also ask for the acreage
end value of each crop, and the acre.
age of improved, unimproved, and
irrigated lands.
The designation each crop" in
cludes all grains, cotton, corn, rice,
sugar cane, sugar beets. sorghum.
hay, clover, wild grasses, gathered
forage. fax, 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 vegetables, including the
product of all family truck and mar
ket gardens, etc.; and 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 q number of
heads, such as horses, colts, mules,
asses, COWS, heifers steers, calves.
bulls, ewes, rams, lambs. swine.
goats. chickens, 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,
syrup, sugar, eggs, beeswax, honey,
wool, wine, cider, vinegar, dried and
evaporated fruits, forest products,
poultry and meat products, and.
generally, all articles made at home,
or for the home, from farm materials
in 1899.
II q person who moves from farm
between the end OF the crop year 1899
and June /, 1900. will leave writ
ten 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
be required to give the enumerator
of the district in which he lives on
June l, 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 enumerstor will be
instructed to record in June, 1900.
he will save time for himself and the
officer. and insure more accurate re-
turns to the Government.
The twentieth century will begin
on January 1. 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
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