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the next census reports with the business man, who, unlike most 

 farmers, keeps a full set of books showing his transactions, profits 

 and losses in reliable detail. 



Persons in any community, especially the foreign born, who do 

 not read and write the English language, or do so with difficulty, 

 should receive, through their English reading neighbors, such 

 suggestions, information and help as will enable them to be equally 

 well prepared to furnish the items which the census enumerator 

 will require. 



The superintendents or managers of public institutions which 

 own or lease and cultivate lands, such as agricultural colleges, 

 state universities, experiment stations, state and county hospitals 

 for the insane, city and county workhouses and houses of correc- 

 tion, state reform schools, national and state soldiers' homes, 

 Indian schools, county and town poorhouses, homes for mutes, 

 blind and other defectives, military barracks, light-house keepers, 

 co-operative communities, and so on, will be called upon to report 

 their crops and products in detail the same as private farmers. 



Tenants will be required to give the size and value of the farms 

 they rent or lease and the value of the improvements thereon the 

 same as if they were owners. 



Persons who will be recorded by the enumerators aB " tenants " 

 include those cultivating lands for a fixed rental, working lands 

 "on shares," working lands in partnership with owners for a 

 fixed rental, working lands in partnership with owners on shares, 

 working rented lands practically in partnership with a third party 

 (usually the store-keeper in the South who furnishes supplies for 

 the season) by mortgaging their crops to him in advance, pur- 

 chasing mere grass or pasture privileges, etc., etc. 



Those who for census purposes will be classified as "owners," 

 include individuals, co-partnerships, corporations, public insti- 

 tutions, heirs whose property, divided and undivided, is held in 

 trust, persons foreclosed under mortgage or sold out for taxes 

 but holding over for redemption, homesteaders who have not com- 

 pleted the five year period of cultivation or have not " proved up " 

 by filing final papers, preemptors who intend to pay cash for 

 government lands, purchasers of lands on contract for deed where 

 some of the purchase money instalments are unpaid, occupants of 

 " no-man's lands," or of lands in unsurveyed or mountain regions 

 where metes and bounds are wanting, actual possessors under 

 clouded or controverted titles, and so on. 



Farmers who move from one farm to another between the end 

 of the crop year 1899 and the coming of the enumerator on June 

 1, 1900, should preserve and take with them, for the use of the 



