The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-02-22
CENSUS OF CROPS.


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 prod
ucts Of $780,.
Instead of recording several farms on
enc schedule in the Twelfth census, as
heretofore. each farm will be accorded
= 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 {, 900, 900 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 . 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-
spectively, by said occupant.
IIn o1c ~
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,
fax, hemp, hops. peanuts, tobacco,
seeds, nuts, tropical fruits, small
fruits. orchard fruits, nursery and
greenhouse stock, broom corn, Irish pc.
tatoes, sweet potatoes and yams, all
vegetables, including the product of all
family, truck. and market gan dens.
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 l, 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, chick
ems (including guinea fowl). turkeys,
geese, ducks, bees, etc.
He will also ask for tho quantity and
value of milk, cream, butter, cheese,
raisins. prunes, molasses, strip, 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.
If person who moves from a farm
between the end of the crop year 1899
and June /, 1900, will leave q 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. He will b. required t.
give the enumsrator of the district
which he lives on June l, 1900.
acreage, value, buildings, machinery J,
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 tho enumerator will be in
stucted to record in June, 1900, he
will save time for himself and the Off
Ger, and insure more accurate returns
to the government.
January. l, 1901. Therefore, the pend
ing census will afford to future genera.
tions q 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. If 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 q formal invita-
ton 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 q mild winter has left
heavy stocks of wooden goods on their
hands; the price on woolens has ad.
vanced Is per cent in the past three
months.
Thursday 100 horses were shipped
from Walla Walla TO Vancouver, says
the Walla WalIa Union. The animals,
! together with number of other horses,
will be transported to the Philippines
for cavalry use. No more horses will
be purchased for the government in
Walla Walla at the present time.
Blanche Dewey, . 15-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
hog that weighs 525 pounds.
| G. R. Hunt is about to build . new
barn on his Tllamook dairy ranch, for
which As, 900 feet of lumber will be
required. -
Telegraph, telephone and electric
companies have appealed to the author
tiles of Pendleton to protect them from
the tin sign tackers. who persist in de-
facing their property by lacking their