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Show Iron County Agriculture Census Crew Leader Announces Appointment of Enumerators Henry A. Wood, appointed crew leader in the 1954 Census of Agriculture, Ag-riculture, announced this week the appointment of county personnel per-sonnel to handle the enumeration enumera-tion of the county. Appointed on the census team were Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Knell, Newcastle; Air. and Mrs. Norman J. Grlmshaw, Enoch and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pace, Cedar City. The enumerator is the "infantry "infan-try man" of the census organization. organiza-tion. It is his duty to locate every farm within the area, assigned to him, interview each farm operator op-erator and obtain an accurate record of all farming operations as well as Information covering farm facilities and equipment and related items. Enumerators work a minimum of eight hours daily and must be available for evening work if necessary to complete their as- signment. Only one of the cou-1 , pies listed above is actually as- j signed as an enumerator but 1 they are supposed to work in 1 couples. Mrs. Knell, Mr. Grim-shaw Grim-shaw and Mrs. Pace are 'the enumerators. On Wednesday, Nov. 3, the team report to Mi. Wood for a four day training session. He begins be-gins enumeration of the farms in . his district, Iron County, on Nov. 8. It is expected that the process will take from three to four weeks to complete. Quayle Cannon, Jr., of Salt Lake City, field supervisor of the Census of Agriculture, stated that the census this fall will bring up to date the statistics now covering a century for the state's farms. The 1954 census will yield in- t a; i i lormauon on numDer ana sjze oi farms, acreage and harvest of crops, livestock, selected facilities facili-ties and equipment (food freezer, freez-er, piped running water, tractors, trucks, etc.), selected expenditures, expendi-tures, and other details. |