Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 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 aie 42, * (MX) enumerators, who in all 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'asiced, 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 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 . Grass'lands; 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. 16. Cereals: Barley, buckwheat, IndiaD corn, oats, rye, wheat; acres, crop, amount of each sold and consumed, and value. 17. Rice: 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, bushelsand value. 21. Hops: 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 1889; number died in 1889. 25. Sheep: Number on hand June 1, 1899, of “fine wool,” “long wool 1 ” 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. Hogs: on farm June 1,1890. 29. Neat Cattle: Working oxen, milch cows, and other cattle on hand 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 creamer y-.- 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. Swme: Number on hand Jume 1, 1890; sold in 1889; consumed on farm and died in 1889. 32. Poultry: Numbereachof chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks on hand June Ist, 1889; value of all poultry products sold; eggs produced, sold, and value in 1889. 33. Bees: Number of stands, pounds of honey and wax produced, ani

value. 34. Onions: Field crop—number of acres, bushels produced RDd 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 i n young vines not bearing; products of grapes and r&ibins, and value in 1889.

Besides these questions on the Schedule No. 2, Superintendent liobert 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 m cities and villages; also the pames and number of all the various farmer's organizations, such

as Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, Poultry and Bee Associations; Farmers’ Clubs, Granges, Alliances, Wheels, Unions, Leagues, etc. X In no part of the census work have, the lines been extended more than in the direction as agriculture, and if farmers will now*cheerfully co-operate with the enumerators and other officials in promptly furnishing the correct figures more comprehensive returns regarding our greatest industry will be obtained than ever before.

Census Enumerators for Jasper County. Hoii. Chas. Harley, of Delphi, supervisor of the Census for the Fifth Census District of Indiana, has appointed the following enumerators for Jasper county: Barkley township, Geo. W. Payne. Carpenter township, outside of Remington, Geo. A. Chappel. Town of Remington, Miss Maude Daily. Gillain township, McKindree Paris. Hanging Grove and Milroy townships, one district, Chas. R. Peregrine. Jordan township, Marcus J. Lewis. Newton township, Virgil Sayler. Kankakee and Wheatfield townsh i ps, one district,!! eo. N. Darin, Keener and Union townships, one district, Edwin G. Warren. Marion township, outside of Rensselaer, Harvey W. Wood. Town of Rensselaer, Miss Edith Miller. Walker township, John O’Conner.

The above named tire ail but two or three soldiers or sons or daughters of soldiers. The appointment of the two young ladies as enumerators is not an unusual occurence, a large number of female enumerators in the aggregate, having been appointed for this census. The enumerators must begin their work next Monday, and have it completed in* thirty 7 days, at the furthest, They must work hard and work well or they will be summarily fired, without benefit of clergy, and somebody else appointed in their place.

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