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cows, sheep, &c., and the number of sheep killed by dogs. 



Separate places are provided for entering the number of 

 domestic animals , (horses, mules and cows), kept in cities 

 and villages, which have heretofore been omitted from 

 want of the agricultural blank, by the marshals in those 

 localities. These in the final tables, will be incorporated 

 with the proper entries of the agricultural blanks. 



Of manufactures, the inquiries of the last census will 

 meet the wants of this, but fall far short of presenting a 

 full honest account of these industrial resources of the state. 



But there is one measure which will equally apply to 

 special manufactures and special institutions, to which the 

 census may be used in a manner altogether new, yet I feel 

 confident, with full prospect of success. It is this: 



The enumerators being all appointed by the secretary 

 of state, and their post office address being known, let a 

 circular be sent to each, asking them to reply by return 

 mail, what of certain of the more common manufactures, 

 and institutions named in the circular there are in his dis- 

 trict. Then let a special blank adapted to the particular 

 subject of inquiry be supplied for each, and when filled, 

 let it be at once returned by mail. 



The variety and precision of the information thus attain- 

 able, cannot fail of being in the highest degree useful to 

 the interests of which they are the subject. 1 



1 There "were fourteen of these special blanks prepared, but on further 

 consideration, two of these (numbers 6 and 11) were not printed. They 

 were numbered as follows : — Manufactories. 1. Cheese factories. 2. 

 Cotton factories. 3. Gristmills. 4. Iron furnaces and forges for reducing 

 ore. 5. Lumber mills. 6. Oil refineries ; (petroleum.) 7. Paper mills. 8. 

 Tanneries. 9. Wollen factories. Institutions. 10. Alms houses and poor 

 houses. 11. Asylums for aged and indigent. 12. Boarding Academies not 

 incorporated or reporting to the Regents of University, or to the common 

 school department. 13. Hospitals. 14. Orphans Asylums. The success 

 of this measure equalled expectations. The use of these blanks, was in fact 

 an approach to the system of taking the census in Europe, where blanks 

 are left to be filled out in each family. 



