Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-11-08
"A FARM" IS DEFINED BY
 CENSUS ENUMERATORS

Washington, November 3:-What i.
 a farm?
 Seems foolish question to ask
 doesn't it? Almost anyone can tel
 off-hand just what a farm is anc
 knows one when he see it.
 But do you happen to know the in.
 depreciation Uncle Sam places on the
 word farm" for census purposes ?
 No? Then read how this Bureau of
 the Census defines the word:
 "A farm for census purposes is all
 the land which is directly farmed by
 one person conducting agricultural
 operations, either by his own labor or
 with the assistance of members of
 his household or hired employees"
 In further explanation of this def
 milton the Census Bureau points out
 that the term agricultural opera
 tions" is used as general term re-
 ferring to the work of growing crops. producing other agricultural products and raising domestic animals, poultry or bees.
 From this definition it will be seen that a farm may consist of single tract of land or of number of sep arate and distinct tracts. And these several tracts may be held under diff ferent tenures as, for instance, when one tract is owned by the farmer and another is rented by him. Thus if a man who owns 100 acres rents an ad- ditional ten acres from some one else and operates them both the 100 acres and the ten acres, then his "farm" in cludes both tracts of land comprising 110 acres.
 By the same token when a land owner. has one or more tenants, rent CTS, croppers or managers, each diff ferent tract of land operated by any such tenant, renter, cropper or mana ge is considered a separate and dis tinct farm by the Census Bureau. Or, to give an example, if man own ing 120 acres of land rents 40 acres | to tenant and farms the remaining 80 acres himself, his farm is the 80 acres which he operates, not the 12O acres which he owns, while the 40 acre tract which he rents to tenant comprises separate farm to be re- ported in the name of the tenant.
 Another question to be determined is how important does an agricultural enterprise have to be in order to se- cure recognition in the census las a farm? A small vegetable garden or a chicken yard accommodating few 1 busy hens will not be allowed to quail ify as Harm" in the census no mat ; ter with what pardonable pride and the proprietor may view his agricultural enterprise.
 But if the garden or chicken yard I expands until it covers not less than ( ;hree acres of ground, or until it re- ] Iuires for it's care the continuous ser 7ices oflat least one person, or yields q products annually to the value of $250 e ,r more, it comes within the census c definition of farm and will be rec ,gnized as such and counted s
 The agricultural schedule contains J many questions regarding farm values and live stock as we'll as the ( lcreage and quantity of crops raised e n the year 1919. Census Bureau of- ( icials are urging farmers everywhere \ o prepare for the census enumerator V y looking over their books and rec S rds so that accurate answers may be urnished to questions. {
 In this connection the Bureau O. he Census emphasizes the fact thas he information furnishes to census akers is absolutely confidential, made o by Act of Congress, and that under 70 circumstances can any such infor- a nation be used as basis for taxation. n Cooperation between farmers and n he census officials next January is D nore necessary and vital than ever U efore", declares Director of the Cen N us Sam L. Rogers. "The world war tt nd the part that the farmers played e , it and will continue to play in the tt of Europe serve to make ne agriculture section of the Four W ,enth Decennial Census the most i'm m ortant in the Nations history. Ab- ti olute accuracy and completeness in tf le census returns is the goal towar l el 'hich every citizen should strive" g Jew CeOpranhv EOr if