vegetable, field crop, fruit and nut, dairy, livestock, or 

 poultry. The remaining two categories of holdings are 

 used when the above do not apply. 



Mixed holding is one on which no item accounts for 

 50 percent or more of the value of sales. 



Ottier liolding is one that does not belong to any of 

 the previous groups. 



Selected production expenses— Info rmaton was obtained 

 for six major categories of farm expenses incurred during 

 1987. 



1 . Machine hire and customworl<— Expenses for machine 

 hire and customwork relate to tractor hire, plowing, 

 and spraying. Any amount spent for the labor 

 involved is considered to be part of the expense. 

 The costs of hauling, trucking, or of exchange work 

 without pay are omitted. 



2. /-/ired farm iabor— Expenses for hired farm labor 

 include total cash payments made to family mem- 

 bers and others for farm labor. Payments to per- 

 sons supplied by a contractor or a cooperative 

 organization and paid directly by them or by the 

 crew leader are also included. Payments are excluded 

 for housework, contract construction work, custom- 

 work, and repair and installation work performed by 

 persons specifically employed for the work. 



3. Purchases of feed— Expenses for feed for livestock 

 and poultry include total cash payments for pasture 

 used, salt, concentrates, mineral supplements, grain, 

 hay, millfeeds, and any other items purchased for 

 feeding livestock and poultry on the place. Expenses 

 made for the grinding and mixing of feed and the 

 estimated cost of items furnished to the operator by 

 a landlord or others are also included. Payments 

 made by a tenant to a landlord for feed grown on 

 the tenant's farm are excluded. 



4. Purchases of insecticides, fungicides, and herbicid- 

 es— These expenses include total cash expenses 

 for all chemicals, sprays, dusts, etc., used to control 

 weeds, pests, insects, or disease on crops and 

 livestock. 



5. Purchases of fertilizers and manure— These expenses 

 include the total amount spent for manure and 

 commercial fertilizers of all kinds for use on the 

 farm. 



6. Purchases of livestock and poultry— These expenses 

 include all cash expenses for livestock and poultry 

 purchased for the place. The cost of livestock and 

 poultry bought and then resold within 30 days is not 

 included. 



Livestock, poultry, and fish— Data for livestock and 

 poultry show the number on hand at time of enumeration 

 and quantity sold during 1 987. All livestock and poultry on 

 the place were enumerated at the time of the enumeration 

 regardless of ownership. 



Sales data were collected for all livestock and poultry 

 sold from the place during 1 987, as well as dozens of eggs 

 and quarts of milk sold. 



Data for pounds of fish caught, pounds of fish sold, and 

 value of sales are for calendar year 1987. 



Cattle and calves— Includes "milk cows" that were on 

 the place on the day of enumeration and were milked at 

 any time during 1987. "All others" refers to cattle and 

 calves other than milk cows. Livestock sales data are for 

 the calendar year 1 987. 



Equipment— The following types of equipment on the 

 place at time of enumeration regardless of ownership, 

 were reported so long as they were operable. 



Tractors— This includes all wheel and tracklaying 

 (crawler) tractors, garden tractors, and homemade trac- 

 tors. 



Motortrucks— Th\s includes pickup trucks and truck- 

 trailer combinations, and jeeps and station wagons, if 

 used primarily as trucks. 



/1t/to/77oMes— This includes jeeps and station wag- 

 ons used primarily as passenger cars. 



Facilities- The presence or absence of electricity and/or 

 piped running water on the place was reported. 



Electricity— This covers electrical power anywhere 

 on the place including the dwelling of the operator. 



Piped running water- This covers water in pipelines 

 by a pressure system or by gravity flow from natural or 

 artificial sources. Water from a hand pump was not 

 considered to be piped running water. 



FARM CLASSIFICATIONS 



Tables 23, 24, 25, and 26 present detailed data for 

 farms classified by tenure and age of operator, by size of 

 farm, and by value of agricultural products sold. 



Farms by tenure of operator— Farms were classified 

 by tenure of operator on the basis of information reported 

 for land owned, rented from others, operated under a 

 government permit, operated without a permit (nonpermit- 

 tee), or furnished by the Government of Guam in connec- 

 tion with the operator's living quarters. During the process- 

 ing operations, each report form was coded to indicate 

 whether the operator was a full owner, part owner, tenant, 

 permittee, nonpermittee, or other operator. 



A-4 APPENDIX A 



1987 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE 



