Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
GET READY FOR THE
CENSUS ENUMERATOR
Count of Noses in the United
States Begins Tomorrow
Will Have to Tell Your Age
but Figures Will Be Kept
Secret

beginning tomorrow, January Q. To
save your own time when the enumera-
tor calls. 1t would be well to get posted
on the answers you must make to his
questions Here are some important
facts about this "kwiz:'
ENUMERATION BEGINS JANUARY
g 1920
The census is required every ten years
by the Constitution of the United STATES
and by act of Congress. The date named
for beginning the 1920 census is January
2. but the Census, Day is January 1.
In cities the population enumeration
will be completed In two weeks.
The enumeration Of farms will be COM
pleted within thirty days.
The censuses of manufactures. mines
and quarries. oil and gas wells. and
forestry and forest products will, as q
rule, be taken by special agents and by
correspondence, and not by enunlerators.
The census is the means by which the
government ascertains the increase in
the population the statistics concerning
agriculture, and the vital information
concerning the resources of the nation.
CENSUS FOR STATISTICAL PUR-
POSES ONLY
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 1t be used to harm any
person or his property.
1t has nothing whatever to do with
detection, arrest, prosecution. or punish
ment Of any person for any violation 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.
8. Each person will be asked his birth
place as well as the birthplace of father
and mother.
4. II foreign born the date of coming to
the United States will be asked, and, II
naturaized, the date of becomine-a citi-
IN; 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 of debt.
6. Each person will be asked his &C.
or employee or is working on his own
account
The answers to the above questions give
valuable and vital information, to the gov
eminent concerning the health, welfare
and progress of the persons under it's
protection.
| IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ASKED TO
FARMERS
asked how many years, If any, he worked
on farm for wages; how many years.
If any. he was a tenant; and how many
years. If any he farmed as an owner.
2. Whether he ta) owns. or 90 rents. or
(c) partly owns and partly rents his farm,
or whether (d) he operates the farm for
others as a manager or superintendent.
3. How many acres in his farm? Num-
Der of improved acres? Number of I'M
improved acres and number of acres Of
woodland?
! 4. Total value of farm? Total value of
buildings? Value of implements and
machinery on farm?
! 5. Whether farm is mortgaged? If so,
the amount of mortgage?
| G. Expenses for feed, fertilizer, and
labor in the year 1919?
| I. Several questions concerning artificial
drainage or his farm.
s. Number of cows. horses sheep.
chickens, and other domestic animals on
the farm January 1, 1920?
o. Quantity and acreage of all crops
grown on the farm in 1919, including fruits
and vegetables?
10. Quantity Of milk and butter sold off
the farm during the year 1913?
| II. Acreage of timber land on farm and
value of forest products
Correct answers to the above questions
are of the utmost important. The United
States Department of Agriculture assisted
the census bureau in preparing the ques-
tons on the agriculture schedule and ap-
peals to farmers everywhere to keep farm
records for census purposes.
Copies of the agriculture schedule can
be had in advance by any farmer by writ
ing to the Director of the Census, Wash
ington, ID. c.
FARM DEFINED
A farm for purposes of the census in
cludes all the land cultivated by a single
farmer either by his own labor alone or
with the help of hired labor. 1t NAV be
in two or more separate tracts, but 1t is
/ all one farm If it is all under one man.
agement.
The land cultivated by a share hand OF
cropper, or by a cash renter constitutes
a separate farm and is not to be counted
as the owners farm or included in IL
but should be reported in the name OF
the tenant
IDENTIFICATION CARDS CARRIED
BY ENUMERATORS
Census enumerators will carry identi.
fcation cards as well as written commits.
sions These will be shown promDtlv Inv
the enumerators upon request of any per.
son.
| In all cases where persons are sus.
picious of impostors these Identification
cards should be demanded 1t is against
the federal law to impersonate IA census
official, and impostors should De reported
to the authorities.
CENSUS QUESTIONS MUST BE
ANSWERED
The act of Congress providing for the
census makes it the duty Of all persons
to furnish the information asked for b,
the enumerators to fill out the census
schedules No persons should hesitate
neglect or refuse to answer fully ano
accurately all the enumerator's questions
He only asks the questions necessary &c
fill the schedules as required by the act
of Congress.
Keepers of hotels, apartment houses
boarding or lodging houses, or tenements
must assist the enumerator in getting tn,
information concerning the persons livnl
in such hotels and houses.
HELP THE ENUMERATORs
The census has heretofore bean taka,