The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-11-21
AGRICULTURAL
CENSUS WILL
BE TAKEN SOON
Federal Government Com
pletes Organization to Get
Data Which Is Desired
A SPECIAL { f n 5 u ;
Was Authorized by Last Con-
gress to Get Information
on Farm Conditions

Fargo, \. d., Nov. I'll Organiza-
tion for the first semi -decennihi
ag, icuitural census has been com
plctcd and enumerators will take to
the field Dec. ! to spend two months
securing the necessary data, accord
inc TO an announcement made by
John b. Mitchell of Washington, ID.
c.. who has spent the past week in
this state. Mr. Mitchell is super
visor for five states. North and
South Oak ota, Minnesota. Iowa and
Nebraska.
This special census was author
lied by the last Congress and is be-
ing taken in every state OF the
union under the direction OF the u.
s. department OF commerce. North
Dakota has been divided into five
districts. with a district supervisor
in charge OF each.
Northwest counties comprise dis
trict No. with II. l.. Finke in
charge. Headquarters are at Mlnot.
North central counties are district
No. 2. l.. A. Larson is in charge
with headquarters at Devils Lake.
District No. 3. in the northeast. and
No. >, in the southeast, are in charge
of H. O. Hcrbrandson of Grand
Forks, federal statistician for the
L. S. department of agriculture.
B. Byron Bobb is in charge of dis
trct No. 4, the southwest counties.
with headquarters at Bismarck.
These five districts are again sub
divided into groups of four to SIX
townships, depending upon the den
sity of the population. and an emu
merator has been named for each of
the districts.
College COOperates
The North Dakota Agricultural
college has cooperated with the de-
partment Of commerce in organizing
the districts for the state and in
recommending district supervisors.
County agricultural agents have
been called upon to furnish detailed
specific information in regard to
their counties, particularly in recon-
mending qualified enumerators.
"The agricultural census about to
be enumerated relates only to farm
acreage and crops grown during the
wear 1924, and to livestock, etc, on
hand as of Jan. |, 1928" Mr.. Nit
chell declares. This ought to dis
pel any notion that this information
is being secured for the benefit OF
spectators. A speculator is more
interested in crop estimates than II
past history. As these data cannot
be tabulated and published before
the middle Of next year, the absur-
dity of such an idea is apparent.
Every employee of the census
bureau from the clerks in the bu-
reau to the force employed in the
field is sworn not to divulge any in
formation obtained on schedules UNI
der penalty of $1,000 fine or I'M
prisonment not to exceed two years
No data for smaller area than
the county will be published.
Schedule Mailed
"Some persons have claimed that
this census is Il governmental
scheme to obtain data for the gov
ernmenta! Tax aseHcleS. iHiS ID az
solutely untrue, as the revenue de-
partments of the government vii
not have access to the individual
schedules. No person holding any
public office, nor connected with any
tax department, whether federal
state. county, city or township, viii
be employed in this work, nor any
person connected with any farm
loan board
Copies of the schedules have beer