Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1890 — FARMERS AND THE CENSUS. [ARTICLE]

FARMERS AND THE CENSUS.

The census year began June 1, 1889, and ends May 31,1890. Each state has from one to eleven supervisors’ districts. There are 175 supervisors in all. There are 42, 000 enumerators, who in ail parts of the country will begin their work Monday morning, June 2, 1890. Every farm will be visited before June 30, and the following questions will, be asked, keeping in mind that the figures you are to give nearly all pertain to the crops of 1889, and not to the growing crops of 1890: 1. Your name as occupant of the farm. 2. Are you owner, renter for money, or for share of the crops of the farm ? 3. Are you white or black? 4. Number of acres of land, improved or unimproved. 5. Acres irrigated. 6. Number of artesian wells flowing. 7. Value of farm, buildings, implements, machinery, and live stock. 8. ’ Fences: Cost of building and repairing. 9. Cost of fertilizers. 10. Labor: Amounts paid for labor, including board; weeks of hired labor, white or black. 11. Products: Estimated value of all farm productions sold, consumed, or on hand for 1889. 12. Forestry: Amount of wood cut, and value of all forest products sold. 13, Grasslands: Acres of each kind-of grasslands cut for hay or pastured; tons of hay and straw sold; clover and grass seeds produced and sold; silos and their capacity. 14. Sugar: Cane, sorghum, maple and beet; sugar and molasses; acres, product and value of each. 15. Caster Beans: Acres. 10. Cereals: Barley, buckwheat, Indian corn, oats, rye, wheat; acres, crop, amount of each sold and consumed, and value. 17. Piice: Acres,crop and value. 18. Tobacco: Acres, crop, amount sold and value. 19. Peas and Beans: Bushels and value of crop sold. 20. Peanuts: Acres, bushels and value. 21. flops: acres

pounds, and value. 22. Fibers: Cotton, flax and hemp; acres, crop and value. 23. Broom corn: acres, pounds and value. 24. Live Stock: Horses, mules and asses; number on hand June 1, 1890; number foalep in 1889; number sold in number died in 1889. 25. Sheep: Number on hand June 1, 1899, of “fine wool,” “long wool 4 ” and all other; number of lambs dropped in 1880; ‘ spring lambs” sold in 1889; sold in 1889 other than “spring lambs;” slaughtered for use on farm in 1889; killed by dogs in 1889; died from other causes in 1889. 26. Wool: shorn spring of 1890 and fall of 1889. 57. Goats: number of Angora and common. 28. Dogs: on farm June 1, 1890. 29. Neat Cattle: Working oxen, milch cows, and other cattle on band Junel, 190;number of pure bred, grade and common; calves dropped in 1889; cattle sold in 1899, slaughtered for use on the farm, and died in 1889. (30) Dairy: Milk —total gallons produced on farm; sold for use in families; sent to creamery or factory; used on farm, including for butter or cheese; used on farm in raising cream for sale, including for creamery or factory. Butter—pounds made on farm and sold in 1889. Cream—quarts sent to creamery

or factory; sold other than to creamery or factory. Cheese — pounds made on farm and sold in 1889. 31. Swine: Number on hand Jume 1, 1890; sold in 1889; consumed on furm and died in 1889. 32. Poultry: Number each of chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks on hand June Ist, 1889; value of all poultry products sold; eggs produced, spld, and vklue in 1889. 33. Bees: Number of of honey and wax produce!* am! value. 34. Onions: Field crop—number of acres, bushels produc ed and sold, and value. 35. Potatoes: Sweet and liish, bushels produced and sold. 36. Market gardens and small fruits: Number of acres in vegetables, blackberries, cranbeiries, raspberries, strawberries, and other small fruits, and total value of products in 1889. 37. Vegetables and fruits for canning: Number of acres, and products, in bushels, of peas and beans, green corn, tomatoes, other vegetables and fruits. 38. Orchards: Apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, pears, plums, and prunes, and other orchard fruits; in each the number of acres, crop in 1889, number of young trees not bearing, and value of all orchard products sold. 39. Vineyards: Number of acres in vines bearing and in young vines not bearing; products of grapes and raisins, and value in 1889.

Besides these questions on the Schedule No. 2, Superintendent Robert P. Porter has ordered several special investigations in the interests of agriculture, among which are Viniculture, Nurseries, Florists, Seed and Truck Farms, Semi-tropic Fruits, Oranges, etc., Live Stock on the great ranges, and in cities and villages; also the uames and number of all the various farmer’s organizations, such as Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, Poultry and Beo Associations, Farmers’ Clubs, Granges, Alliances, Wheels, Unions, Leagues, etc. * la no part of the census work have the lines been extended more than in the direction as agriculture, and if farmers will co-operate with tiie enumerators and other officials in promptly furnishing the correct figures more comprehensive returns regarding our greatest industry will be obtained than ever before.