Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-04-19
In4ereetIno Faets about the census

| Interesting Facts alb out the Census
1. The first really valuable Census Of
Agriculture 10 the United States was taken
in 1850, of the crops of 1919. 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 10 the Twelfth Census, as
heretofore, each farm viii 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 pub
lished in connection with information
secured from the people.
3. Tax assessors, collectors, and equal
izers cannot serve as enumeratoEs, or nave
access to the Census retnrns, 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 desig-
mated as farms
5. A FARM is all the land cultivated or
held for agricultural purposes under one
management, whether in single body or
separate parcels.
6 The enumerator will ass sr the size
and value of each farm, the saiae Of build
ings, and the aggregate value o. machln-
cry, implements. vehicles, harness, ETC.,
used thereon; and the amount of land
owned aud leased, respectively, by said
occupant
z He will also ask for the acreage and
value of each crop, and the acreage of inn
proved, unimproved, and irrigated lands,
8. The designation each crop" includes
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 pota-
toes, sweet potatoes and yams all vege-
tables, including the product of all family,
truck, and market gardens, ETC.; also new
or unusual crops, when found.
9 The euumerator will ask for the num-
Der and value of the live stock on the farm
June /, 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,
chickens (including 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, bees
wax, 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
IL IF a person who moves from farm
between the end of the crop year 1893 and
June l, 1900, will leave 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 be
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.
-. II every farmer will begin at once
to prepare careful record of all the facts
which the enumerator will be instructed
to record in June, 1900, he will save time
for himself and the officer, and insure more
accurate returns to the Government.
10 The twentieth century will begin on
January /, 1901 Therefor, 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 10
making it as nearly perfect as possible. If
each farmer will make his own report
perfect, the aggregated report for every
community, aud for the nation, will be
perfect.