The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-11-13
Uncle SANS Definition of a Farm
May Interest Everybody.

"A farm for census purposes is all
the land which is directly farmed
by one person conducting agriculture
al operations, either by his own labor
or with tie assistance of members OF
his household or hired employees -
finition the Census Bureau points
out that the term agricultural opera
tons is used as general term re-
ferring to the work of growing crops,
producing other agricultural pro-
ducts and raising domestic animals,
poultry or bees.
From this definition it will be seen
that 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 additional 10 acres from some one
else and operates both the 100 acres
and the ten acres, then his farm in
GUIDES both tracts of land comprising
ITO acres. -
BY the same token when land
holder has one or more tenants,
renters, choppers or managers, each
different tract of land operated by
any such tenant, renter, cropper or
manager is considered separate and
distinct farm by the Census Bureau.
Or, to give an example, if man
owning 120 acres of land rents 40
naming so acres himself, his farm
is the so acres which he operates.
not the 100 acres which he owns,
while the 40 acre tract which he
rents to a tenant comprises a separ-
ate farm to be reported in the name
OF the tenant.
Another question to be determin-
cultural enterprise have to be in
order to secure recognition in the
census as farm? A small vegetable
garden or a chicken yard accom-
modating a few busy hens will not
be allowed to qualify as farm
in the census no matter with what
pardonable pride and satisfaction the
proprietor may view his agricultural
enterprise.
But if the garden or chicken yard
expands until it covers not less than
three acres of ground, or until it re-
quires for it's care the continuous
services of at least one person, or
yields products annually to the val
ne of $3.50 or more, it comes within
the census definition of a farm and
will be recognized as such md count
ed.
The agricultural contains many
questions regarding the farm values,
expenses and live stock as we'll as
the acreage and quantity of crops
raised in the year 1919. Census Blu
reau officials are urging farmers
everywhere to prepare for the census
enumeration by looking over their
books and records so that accurate
answers may be furnished to ques-
tons.
-. In this connection the Bureau of
the Census emphasizes the fact that
the information furnished to census
takers is absolutely confidential,
made so by Act of Congress and that
under no circumstances can any such
information be used as a basis for
taxation.
Cooperation between farmers and
the census officials next January is
more necessary and vital than ever
BEFORE declares Director of the Cen
sus Sam l.. Rogers. The world war
and the part that the farmer played
in it and will continue to play in the
rehabilitation of Europe serve to
make the agriculture section of the
Fourteenth Decennial Census the
most important in the Nations his
tory. Absolute accuracy and COM
nle+eness in the census returns is the
goal toward which every citizen
should strive