The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-12-26
FACTS CONCERNING
CENSUS TO BE Ia
Ken IN JANUARY
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SYST ENUMERATOR TO GET
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years by the Constitution of the Uni
ted States and by the Act of Congress.
The date named for beginning the
1920 census is January 2, but the
Census Day" is January LIST.
In cities the population enumeration
will be completed in two weeks.
The enumeration of farms will be
completed within thirty days.
The censuses of manufactures,
mines and quarries, oil and gas wells,
and forestry and forest products will,
as rule, be taken by special agents
and by correspondence, and not by en-
umerators.
The census is the means by which
the Government ascertains the in
crease in the population, the statistics
concerning agriculture, and the vital
information concerning resources of
the nation.
The census inquiries are defined by
act of Congress.
The information gathered is strictly
confidential, made so by law.
Census information can not under
any circumstances be used as a basis
for taxation, nor can it be used TO
harm any person or his property.
1t has nothing whatever to do with
detection, arrest, prosecution, OF pun
ishment of any person for any viola
ton of any law.
Important questions asked of all
persons:
/. Age at last birthday.
2. Each person ten years of age and
over will be asked whether he is able
to read or write.
g. Each person will be asked his
birthplace as well as the birthplace of
father and mother.
4. If foreign born the date of COM
ing to the United States will be asked,
and, if naturalized, the date of becom-
ing a citizen; also mother tongue
or native language.
s. Each head of a family will be
asked whether his home is owned by
him or rented. If owned, whether
the home is mortgaged OF free Of
debt.
6. Each person will be asked his
occupation and whether he is an en-
ployer or employee or is working on
his own account.
The answers to the above questions
give valuable and vital information to
the Government concerning the health
welfare, and progress of the persons
under its protection.
Important questions asked of far
/ mers:
l. Each occupant of farm will be
asked how many years, if any, he
worked on farm for wages; how
many years, if any, he was tenant;
and how many years, if any, he farmed
as an owner.
2. Whether he (a) owns, or (b)
rents, or (c) partly owns and partly
rents his farm, or whether (d) he ope-
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ager or superintendent.
3. How many acres in his farm {?
Number of improved acres? Number
of unimproved acres and number of
acres of woodland?
a. Total value of farm? Total val
ue of buildings ?Value of implements
and machinery IN farm
5. Whether farm is mortgaged. If
so, the amount of mortgage?
6. Expenses for feed, fertilizer, and
labor in the year 1919.
z. Several questions concerning ar
titical drainage of his farm.
8. Number of COWS, horses, sheep,
chickens, and other domestic animals
on the farm January 1, 1920.
9, Quantity and acreage of all
crops grown on the farm in 1919, in
Guiding fruits and vegetables?
10. Quantity of milk and butter sold
off the farm during the year 1919?
IL. Acreage of timber land on farm
and value of forest products.
Correct answers to the above ques-
tons are of the utmost Importance.
| The United States Department of
Agriculture assisted the Census Blu
reau in preparing the questions on the
agriculture schedule and appeals to
farmers everywhere to keep farm rec
ords for census purposes.
Copies of the agricultural schedule
can be had in advance by any farmer
| by writing to the Director of the Cen
sus, Washington, D. c.
A farm for purposes of the census
includes ali the land cultivated by a
single farmer either by his own labor
alone or with the help of hired labor.
1t may be in two or more separate
tracts, but it is all one farm if it Is all
under one management.
The land cultivated by share hand
or eropper, or by a cash renter, con-
stitutes a separate farm and is not to
be counted as the owners farm or in
Guided in it, but should be reported in
the name of. the tenant.