The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-12-19
NINETY THOUSAND CENSUS
TAKERS BEGIN WORK
JANUARY /.

WASHINGTON, Dec 16.-Within
a few weeks the federal census
enumerators will be abroad in Ken
lucky.
Something like 10000 of them
will begin work in the country at
large on January /. They will have
three weeks to complete the work
laid out for them, where their field
is in a city or large town, and thirty
days where their fields of operations
is in the country. The country
enumerators are to have more time
in which to do their, work, because
in addition to counting the people
they will gather agricultural Stats
tics. One of the reasons for chang
ing the date for taking the census
from April to January is that the
farmers usually are busy in the early
spring.
The government assumed that dur
ing the month of January the enum-
orators will find the average farm
ers at leisure and in position to sup
ply the information the government
will desire of him without interfering
with his duties. The department. of
agriculture is acting in an, advisory
capacity and assisting the Bureau of
the Census in acquainting farmers
with what will be expected of them
when the enumerators call.
Attention has been directed to the
fact that considerable figuring and
counting will have to be done in or
der to aGInVer accurately and fully
the questions which will be submitted
by the enumerators. 1t will be the
| policy of the government to have its
enumerators who work in the cOun-
| try leave the questions in the 7,000,-
600 farm homes and return for the
| information within a week or ten
days. The agricultural census stats
tics are divided into facts covering
farm tenure, farm values, farm ex-
penses, uses of the land in 1919,
drainage, crops produced in 1919,
livestock maintained, including an
enumeration of the various numbers
, of class and grade on every farm;
farm facilities, such as tractors, au-
tomobiles, trucks and other farm
cOnveniences, cooperative market
ing, pure-bred animals maintained,
fruits, nuts and various products.
Some new questions in this census
will involve the amount of land from
which no crop was harvested this
year because Of crop failure, crop
land lying idle in 1919, acreage Of
pasture land on each farm, etc. The
government intends to try to make
the farm statistics fuller and more
accurate than any gathered in the
past. On March 1 the government
will begin taking a census Of the
manufactures of the United States
and also of the mining and quarrying,
oil and gas and other interests. This
work will be carried on by a force
entirely separate from that which will
count the people during the first
thirty days of the year and gather
the statistics of agriculture. The
work of taking this industrial census
will continue for several months. The
count of the people and the agricul-
tural census, as well as the industrial
census, is to be taken not only in the
United States proper, but Samoa and
the Canal Zone. The count of the
people is always the interesting fea-
ture of decennial census
If the plans of the Census Bureau
here do not miscarry it will not be
many weeks after the last reports of
the enumerators have been received
until it will be possible to announce
the total population. The enumera-
tors will report to the District Super
vlsors, who in turn will report
through the State Supervisors to
headquarters here. The returns will
be tabulated here by machinery.
There have been far-reaching devel-
opments in machine counters since
the census of 1910, and while the
Census Bureau does not make any
promise as to when it will be ready |
to announce the final total for the !
country, it feels it is prepared to do |
a quick job. M
Following the announcement of |
the total population for the entire |
country the bureau will get out as
quickly as possible the total for the |
various subdivisions, the county and |
the townships. 1t will announce the |
population of large cities as rapidly |
as returns can be tabulated. As a |
general rule, totals for the larger
cities will be announced ahead of |
State totals. Naturally there is any
amount of speculation as to what the |
count of the people will show the to-
tai population of the United States
to be. All the advance information
received by the Census Bureau in
dicates that there has been steady
growth since the count of 1910, but
the bureau declines to forecast as to
what the new count will show.
AS soon as the Census Bureau an
nounces the new population of the
country it will be incumbent on Con-
gress to pass reapportionment act
fixing the number of representatives
in Congress under the new census.