The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-04
HOW MUCH We OWE THE FARMER
Government Issues Appeal
to kSriGuIiuristS to Tell
All About Their Business.

age, between forty-five and fifty years
of age or for any other age period.
The rate of gain in wealth as the
farmers increase in age will be a gen
eral index to the profitableness of
farming as an occupation in different
sections of the country.
The question of tenure, from many
standpoints. is one of the most inter-
esting on the schedule. The three
principal tenures are owner, cash ten
ant and share tenant Formerly the
decrease in number of owners and the
increase in number of tenants were de-
plored by many writer's as an indica-
ton that farm lands were passing into
the hands of capitalists and that ten
ants had correspondingly less oppor-
tunity of becoming farm owners. The
constant relative increase in the num-
Der of tenants is now believed to indi-
cate that steadily increasing number
of farm labofers are rising through
farm tenancy to farm ownership and
that a growing number of farm own
ers become Independent in later life
and retire from active management.
In other words, tenancy is regarded as
the stepping stone whereby young
farm laberers ultimately become farm
owners.
General Information Regarding
Acreage, Values and Expenses.
Each farm operator will be required
to state the total number of acres in
his farm and also the number Of acres
of improved land. The number Of
] acres of timbered land will also be
called for.
Farm Values.-Statemen will be re-
quired of the value of all land In the
the farm and that of all implements
ments; the value of all buildings on
the farm and that of all implements
and machinery belonging to the farm.
In preparing statements of value of
these classes of property it should be
borne in mind that the figures desired
are the values ON April Is, 1910, and
| should be determined by carefully eS-
| timating the amounts that could be
realized from sales under average con-
ditions.
Farm Expenses.-Undert this head in
| curry will be made for the total
amount expended for farm labor in
1900, exclusive of expenditures for
homework In view of the marked
rise in farm wages during the past ten
years, it will be interesting to ascertain
whether or not the average farmer Is
expanding more for help than ut the
time of the last census
A third Question calls for the amount
paid in 1900 for manure and other fer
tflizcrs. In 1899 the average for the
United States was only $40 per farm.
A new question in farm census In
| vestigations calls for the amount paid
in 1909 for hay, grain and other arti-
| cles not raised on the farm, but pur-
| chased fcr feed of domestic animals
and poultry.
Crops and Animal Products.
! Crops.-Four facts are required to bv
ascertained regarding each principal
crop grown on the farm in 1909-the
/ number of acres harvested. the guam
tity produced. the value of the product
and the number of acres sewn CT
planted for harvest il 1910. The val.
ues given should DC based upon price,
received in the loIal markets.
The crops called for on the schedule
are as follows:
(A) Crops Grown Exclusively For
| Their Grain or Seed.-This class in
cludes corn, oats, wheat, durum or
| macaroni wheat, emmer or spelt. bar
ley. buckwheat, rye, Katfir corn and
milo maize. rice, clover and other grass
seed, f1axseed, peanuts, dry peas, com.
mon beans and dry soy beans.
OBJ Crops Grown Exclusively Fol
Hay and F6rage.-In this class are
timothy, clover, timothy and clover
mixed. alfalfa, millet and Hungarian
grasses, other tame or cultivated
grasses; wild, salt or prairie grasses;
small grains cut green for hay. peas
and beans cut green for hay aud coarse
forage crops.
(C) Crops of Sundry Glasses. Under
this head are included potatoes, sweet
potatoes and vans, tobacco. cotton
hemp, broom corn and hops.
Cd Crops Grown For Sugar or Strip
/ Sugar beets. sorghum cane and sugar
cane are the crops included III this
class. The number of maple trees
tapped in 1909 may also be asked.
(E) Fruits and Nuts.-For the princi
pal kinds of orchard fruits, grapes
tropical fruits and nuts farmers vii
be asked to give the number of trees
and vines of bearing age. the number
of young trees not bearing, the guam
titles produced or harvested In 1906
and the value of the products. The
acreage, product and value of small
fruits, including strawberries, rasp.
berries, bltekberries. currants, goose
harrincS ord s.1.nr hprt.inc are I'm be1 rp.