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FARMERS, PREPARE FOR THE TWELFTH 



CENSUS. 



(Published at the request of the U. S. Census Office, Washington, D. C.) 



The 12th Census of agricultural products will be taken on June 

 1, 1900, but it will be of the crops of the calendar year 1899 only, 

 and of the animals, fowls and bees on hand June 1, 1900. 



The law requires the census enumerators to take the (1) acre- 

 age, (2) tenure, and (3) value of every farm ; (4) color of the 

 farmer; (5) value of buildings and permanent improvements; 

 (6) value of implements, machinery, vehicles, sleighs and har- 

 ness ; (7) acreage of irrigated, (8) tile-drained, (9) improved, 

 (10) unimproved and abandoned, (11) owned and (12) leased 

 lands ; (13) cost of hired farm labor (exclusive of household ser- 

 vice) and of (14) fertilizers; (15) acreage, quantity and value of 

 all grain, (16) hay, (17) forage, (18) vegetables, (19) small, 

 (20) tropic and (21) orchard fruit; (22) seed, (23) cotton, (24) 

 rice, (25) hops, (26) hemp, (27) sugar cane, (28) sugar beets, 

 (29) sorghum, (30) broomcorn, (31) flax and (32) nut crops; 

 (33) nursery and (34) greenhouse stock and (35) area of crops 

 under glass ; (36) flowers and flowering and foliage plants and 

 (37) medicinal and (38) aromatic herbs and plants. Also the 

 quantity and value of (39) milk, (40) cream, (41) butter, (42) 

 cheese, (43) honey, (44) wax, (45) eggs, (46) wool, (47), 

 mohair, (48) cider, (49) vinegar, (50) wine, (51) raisins, (52) 

 prunes, (53) dried or evaporated fruits ; (54) dried or evaporated 

 vegetables ; (55) maple, (56) cane and (57) beet sugar ; (58) 

 molasses and (59) sorghum ; (60) poultry, (61) forest, (62) 

 meat and (63) miscellaneous products, besides the numbers and 

 values of all (64) cattle, (65) horses, (66) mules, (67) asses, 

 (68) burros, (69) goats and (70) sheep and the numbers and 

 values of all (71) swine, (72) bees and (73) fowls on hand June 

 1, 1900, and the (74) total income from the farm during 1899. 



A " farm " for census purposes, is all the land cultivated under 

 one ownership or management, whether in a single body or sepa- 

 rate parcels. 



The farm schedule will provide for taking (75) the number of 

 pure blooded animals by breed and (76) "cows kept for milk" 



