The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-26
CENSUS TAKERS
TO BEGIN WORK
FOURTEENTH DECENNIAL CEN
SUS OF MUCH IMPORT
ANCE.

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years by the Constitution of the
! United States and by Act of Con-
gress. The date named for begin
ming the 1920 census is January 2,
but the Census Day" is January 1.
In cities the population enumer-
alton 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, not by
enumerators.
The census is the means by which
the Government ascertains the in
crease in the population, the statis-
tics concerning agriculture, and the
vital information concerning the re
sources of the Nation.
The census inquiries are defined
by act of Congress.
The information gathered is strict
ly 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, prosecution, or punish
ment of any person for any violation
of any law.
Important Questions Asked.
1. Age at last birthday.
/ 2. Each person ten years of age
and over will be asked whether he is
able to read or write.
8. Each person will be asked his
birthplace as well as the birthplace of
father and mother.
a. If foreign born the date of
coming to- the United States will be
asked, and, if naturalized, the date
of becoming citizen; also mother
tongue or native language.
5. Each head of family will be
asked whether his home is owned by
him or rented. If owned, whether
the home is mortgaged or free from
aIdebt.
6. Each person will be asked his
occupation and whether he is an en-
ployer or employee or is working on
his own account.
i The answers to the above ques-
lions give valuable and vital inform
alton to the Government concerning
the health, welfare, and progress of
the persons under it's protection.
4 Questions Asked of Farmers.
1. Each occupant of a farm will
be asked how many years, if any, he
worked on a farm. for wages; how
many years, if any, he was tenant
and how many years, if any, he
farmed as an owner.
Whether he (a) owns, or (b)
rents, or (c) partly owns and rents
his farm, or whether I'D he operates
the farm for others as manager or
superintendent.
3. How many acres in his farm
Number of improved acres? Number
of unimproved acres and number of
Iacres of woodland?
A.. Total value of farm? Total
value of buildings? Value of i'm
plements and machinery on farm?
5. Whether farm is mortgaged?
1t so, the amount of mortgage?
6. Expenses for feed, fertilizer,
and labor in the year 1919?
s 7. Several questions concerning
artificial drainage of his farm.
! 80. Number of cows, horses,
sheep, chickens, and other domestic
animals on the farm January /,
l192O?
4 J 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?
i IL. Acreage of timber land on
farm and value of forest products?
i Correct answers to the above
Questions are of.the utmost import
lance. The United States Depart
lment of Agriculture assisted the
Census Bureau in preparing the ques-
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