Show Farm Census Will Check Changes In Davis The 1964 Census of Agriculture ture now being conducted by bythe bythe bythe the Bureau of the Census US U.S. I Department of Commerce in Davis County will bring up to date the farm and ranch statistics statistics sta sta- sta last collected in 1959 HERE ARE a few of or the many facts recorded in the 1959 agriculture census for this county There were farms and ranches in 1959 compared with 1333 in nt 1954 The average size I of farm and ranch was acres in 1959 compared with 2548 acres in 1954 THE VALUE of products sold sole by the county's farmers and ranchers in 1959 was The value of all crops sold was The value of all livestock livestock live live- stock and livestock products sold was The 1964 national census o of agriculture is the in a series which began in 1840 Because Because Be Be- cause of the rapid changes American agriculture has been undergoing in recent years Census Bureau officials regard regan the current census as one o othe of the most significant ever taken THEY ask every farmer and rancher to cooperate in compiling compiling com com- piling an accurate record o of these changes by filling out the census form he receives in the mail and holding the completed questionnaire until a census taker calls for it |