The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-11-28
FARM CENSUS
STARTS dec. |
Federal Government is Now
Completing Details of Ag-
ricultural Census in u. S.

The department of commerce is
about to take census of agriculture
covering the crop year 1924 and relat-
ing to conditions on or near January
/, 1925. This is the first census of
agriculture to be taken midway be-
tween the decennial censuses; the act
of congress authorizing it is based on
the belief that, with rapidly changing
conditions in agriculture, there should
be a stock-taking as often as every
five years. The work of taking the
census will begin on December /, and
is to be completed on or before Janu-
AIRY 81. AS rapidly as possible after
the receipt of returns statements will
be released for the press, by the GEN.
sus bureau at Washington, relative to
production of the principal farm crops
and the values of farm properties, in
Guiding land, buildings, machinery and
live stock.
The enumeration will require the
services of $4,000 to 10000 enumera-
tors acting under the direction of 212
supervisors, who have for the most
part been selected from the employees
of the bureau of census and the de-
partmnt of agriculture. Employees of
the forest service will secure the GEN.
sus returns for most of the farms
within the national forest reserves in
Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida,
Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana.
Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, South Da-
kota, Tennessee, Utah, Washington,
West Virginia and Wyoming.
Sample questionnaires are being
widely distributed to the farmers, to
familiarize them with the information
soon to be called for by the enumera-
tors. In addition to the usual in
quiries relative to production, values,
and farm expenses, the schedule calls
for the amount of taxes paid by the
farm operator on farm property, in
cluding real estate tax, personal prop
erty tax, and special assessments. 1t
is important to ascertain just what
the burden of taxation resting upon
the farm really is and how it COM
pares within the amount of taxes paid
by other interests. This may point
the way to more equitable adjust
ment of the tax burden.
Heretofore the census of agricul-
ture has always been taken in con-
nection with a complete census of
population. This time it will cover the
farm population only, showing the
number of persons living on the farm.
including the family of the operator
and the farm laborers and their fam
lilies. These persons will be classified
under or over ten years of age and as
white or colored.
The extent to which farm operators
used the purchasing and selling facil-
tiles of farmers organizations will be
brought out by two inquiries; one call
ing for the value of products of the
farm sold through farmers market
ing organization, and the other call
ing for the value of all farm supplies
purchased from or through farmers
organization. An additional index to
the marketing conditions will be
brought out by answers to inquiries
as to the kind of road adjoining the
farm, whether concrete, brick, macad-
am, gravel, improved dirt, or unim-
proved dirt, and the distance to the
nearest market town. Through in
quiries of this character the census
seeks to secure information relative
to conditions upon which to consid-
cradle degree the success of farm OPP
Grafton depends.