The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-11-21
farm CENSUS
TO START SOON
Enumeration Will Start Early
in December According to
Supervisor Of Nevada

visions OF icScH. ~ v 'si 700
The enumeration will begin December
1904 and will be completed by the
and Of January 1925. The inventory
of farm property, including live stock,
will relate to January l, 1925, and
the production of crops and livestock
nroduction will be reported for the
calendar year 1874.
This census is to be the first of a
series of intermediate farm censuses,
that is. of farm census taken in the
middle of the regular decennial CEN
sus periods. This intermediate CEN
sus will be considerably less extensive
than the regular decennial census.
The schedule for the 1925 farm cen
sus. for example, contains less than
one-half as many questions as the
schedule used in 1920.
The schedule as finally adopted is
the work of joint committee of re-
presentatiyes from the Department
of Agriculture and the Department
of Commerce. Prominent agricul-
turists throughout the country have
been consulted with respect to the
questions to be included and it is be-
lieyed that the schedule will be salts
factory to all concerned-or at least
as nearly satisfactory as possible in
view of the limited number of ques-
tions permitted by the appropriation
and the time allowed for the compile
ton of the work. Special attention
is given to the classification of farm
land according TO its use in 1924, to
the farm debt, and TO farm taxes-all
questions of particular Importance at
the present time.
The preliminary work of organizing
the field force is now well under way.
The United States will be divided into
supervisors districts. as at previous
censuses. and each supervisors dis
triet In turn will be divided into en-
umeration districts. There will be
employed in this census 2i2 super
yisors and between 1900 and 10000
enumerators. A large number of the
districts will be supervised by regular
employees detailed from the bureau
of the census and by state statisticans
of the United States Department of
Agriculture. For the remaining dis
tricts persons will be employed as
supervisors who are Unidentified with
the interests of the state.
one supervisors district with head
quarters at Reno, and will be located
at the Agricultural Extension Build
ing of the State University, with b.
X. Addenbrooke as Supervisor. who is
now making the necessary plans for
an organization to push the work as
the Safe has been districted for the
enumerators.
The enumerators will be chosen if
possible. from the farms at different
parts of the State and every effort
will be made to give the Counties and
State full and complete census of
everything pertaining to the Agri-
cultural Industry.
Ii is expected, of course, that the
number of farms enumerated for 1925
will be considerably greater than the
number in 1920.
The United States Department of
Agriculture is working in close coop
Grafton with the Bureau of the Census
IN the work of preparing for and
taxing the 1925 farm census, and val
liable assistance is being rendered
also by the departments of agricul-
ture of the several states, the agri-
cultural colleges, agricultural associa-
tons, and the agricultural press. The
agricultural department of the New
ada State University is actively coop
Grating in the work.
1t is hoped and confidently expected
that this will be the most complete
and accurate census of agriculture
that has ever been taken in the
United States. Previous farm CEN
suses have been taken at the same
time and by the same enumerators
as the census of population. This
iarm census is taken by enumerators
VINO have no other work to do except
10 secure the farm schedules. The
enumerators will therefore be chosen
primarily for their knowledge of agri-
cultural conditions and for other quail
'fieatlons for taking a farm census.
In order that the farmers may be
familiar with the schedule and may
Know in advance of the enumeration
cate that questions are to be asked
oil them, arrangements have been
made to distribute about 100000
sample copies of the schedule through
the rural mail carriers to individual
farmers in all parts of the country.
Each farmer is requested to fill out
'his sample schedule, and to keep 1t
until the census enumerator calls for
~ IL the farmers generally will do
this, the work of the enumerator will
DC much simplified and the census can
pe completed more quickly than
would otherwise be the case. 1t is
oeheVed also that many farmers will
appreciate this advance information
as TO exactly what the census will
cover.
Inc success of the census depends
largely, of course, upon efficient work
upon the part of the supervisors and
ehumerators, it will be affected very
materially however by the coopera-
.'on OF the individual farmer; for it
tne individual farmer who must
uinish the information, in the first
instance, upon which the whole CEN
sus is based.
IL Il.