Show answering census questions will help out farm profits full and fair replies when the enumerator calls are likely to aid the farmer to success every question that will be asked Is an essential question not too early to get facts ready for census man J pans by tha me united states stales depart in merit n of if ag agriculture itura Z washington washingto when the census ran enu casem luevator lue bir cornea comes around to the farm shortly charily after january 1 next year lie he will mill ask mine questions that may lovill like p prying alg into to the can purely personal Ps affairs of the tamer farmer now the tamer farmer like every other self respect ing man dislikes having his private affairs peeped i into tied unless he think about this thing in advance tuny may he have a disposition to Is be alve in if not at actually resistant in he actual 1 fact every eiery question that elmr tor the enumerator hlll ill flak k is au an essential question and has a direct bearing on an the personal welfare and prosperity of the individual farmer as well as upon the file ad advancement commit of the file agrical ture lure of at ill the nation if as a a whole wien IF the bureau of the census de aided to take the farm census in ID jan uary instead 8 t ad of in april it did so upon M the a ad advice ice of the united states department of agriculture the to farm er la 18 less likely to be very busy in january than at the spring planting and breeding season and his products and live block are am in better shape tor for statistical treatment also every new question ind and the there are are a number of ill them inserted la 11 t taig agricultural gL Itra wa leal rd t berg ablest ittye sul It tation tt ll 11 h the department a iua ts em r a f H aal u specific situation it in bah the department of agrico agriculture are Is trying to aid the farmer ile here are some mine questions that will ill be ask asked e it do izo you oun 0 all ot of this Is de far farm in V do you rl ent tar from out others mrs part rt but not met all 11 of this far farm do 7 if you A aim to climb this ladd ladder tell the can enumerator all the ft facca about you yourself if so that the go government mryt can help you vou ron rent cut from others bothem all of this farm fanny if you arut all ot of this fm farm what lant do you pay a as rent it you own all or part of this farm fam web aulay there any mortgage debt or other a en on an th the land so sit a owned and on an jesus january I 1 1120 i what was the total a amount of debt at 01 incumbrance n un durance a on dc land on this athla form farm cwm owned e by you J january I 1 1 1920 Peri pertinent ment not impertinent W what but he sm sam hill you yen may in quire he has a the government got get to do with 11 how ow much money I 1 owe on an my lentil landl well el I 1 two of the things to which th the department of has been giving deepest thought do dur ing the past several vears tears are farm tenn tenancy c y and rural crosbi the past three es cen susee have shown so an in crome create in hi the number of te tenants is alert I 1 ats have felt feit and said that the country Is going to the bow auntry by the landlord route mute the department by of slut agriculture culture however looked into the matter as a well wall a as it we was able and ad refused reamed to be alarmed alamed where it we was able to make surveys it discovered that sell ethe the number dumber of to tenants is 25 years old was greater granter in 1010 or 1890 the number of if tenants tenant 45 years old was a considerably smaller in 1910 than in 1900 or 1890 the inference la 19 t that h at tenancy to Is a step ten toward td own ownership worship that the amm fellow who becomes a tenant dadig farmer alieu lum he marrie say bay Is likely wo se he be a farm fam owner before bis ble first at child Is mown the farm paid tor for and the tiny that used to go fio to pay off the mortgage available for savo bending lout the children to college now to the department of lure cure that looks like a thoroughly nor am mal and beneficial process a to just the extent that tenancy leads to farm lill it Is a good thing for the country and for far the individual full fell anam answers but it lias has not been possible to get n complete nation nationwide side survey of the situation th the forth forthcoming colem con census offers the file i for doing that it if every y farmer st will 1 l a answer the enumerators enumerator a questions fall fulla and ad fair ly Y the department oe if agriculture will have love lie file data fr from which to the situation accurately and to deter dem mine nhat at can it be done to best beat advantage to help the tenant in his api aspiration ration to become a farm owner one of the directions that aid may take I 1 Is a encouragement of rare rural cred its in boiling all of the wave possible of helping the young formea to get gel the money that at he be needs to borrow it if Is necessary esmart therefore to it know what she proportion of farmers who advance adrance from te tenants is to owners have to bor bar row money to make the change and 11 iw much inch in 11 proportion to total intel dij a the forces farms bought they he have ar ahe road rd t toward and ownership does lot 7 I necessarily t clr start with tenancy memory A greit many farm fam owners were first far arm heads hands then tenants e U then owners with a mortgage then on nera arlit debt fire the th census census will mill show if the questions al ais e answered fairly how bow v many y y biars it if one every ry faloon worked for wages wage how many iran venra he was wait a tenant and how bow man mani years tie lie has been an owner the depart ment of agriculture will have the basic information it needs to help a meu to cam le in farm ownership other important Qu queries ellse here are some mine other questions that will be asked haa elam this far farm a tele teb phone Is water piped let into the operators housel house has haa the opera tors term house li gas or electric at carl ctrl lighta now nes th that 1 looks it like an effort to find fin it out whether or not the farm mm fam lly ily has the modem comforts und and it la is lust fuel that but bat it somes meana something more combe than mor mere inquisitiveness sev say oral months montha ago when the bureau of a farm management was in 1 prom or reorganization the secretary of agriculture called a conference of lived of schools beat met war workers suit and olbers from all over the country wile the P people we were a assembled doubled vou bled 1 in washington 1 he asked their opinion as to the most meet useful erful thing that could be it done by the office or of I 1 farm manage conage ment cl c for a whole day those people it discussed acus ad the matter matte just I 1 before night ci with a seem score of items on a the ballot they twit tooh a vote the work of promoting the comfort flud it re con vengence ven ver lence of the farm fam home received an overn helming majority of the votes that then Is one ime or of tse the things that the department ot of agriculture is 18 try ing to do in aid of the farm kopul ton of this easily country in order to a dc the work k intelligently intelligent be the d depart part ment needs as full information a na p able as to how the farm hot homes e ol of ib the country cocory are equipped lor com clow fort r and convenience another way to help every tamer farmer will mill be ask asked ed be how ninny entry acres of drained land he be has and it I 1 how coner jtb other r acres of land t there he m are on mc his f farm that could ill be made suitable tor fr rl cultivation all if they were tile drained or ditch tire drained ried when lic aliee rec questions but or are asked you 0 abl r that they are asked aed acry one anc n of your or neighbors acm on hole a tract of land that would be the in most eid pro product ductile ne held field on OB your farm if so yon e mo could get the s surplus wa ter out of it but bat you can not do it because to bo be effective ill the or 11 ditch me would old he have to go Is r in beyond d the borders of conr or sell own faim zad would old ave to he be a county and th the county be has not net seen been fit to do an am thing about it if that bo true several ot of your neighbors he have land that bould be drained dd if all of ou on tell it all it alie comans census enumerator croter how have ninny may acres you hae that ned drainage Z the dra department rt j W of agriculture will have the fact to show A what hot la Is needed add in your r community when the foully offers it mill v ill be in position to do what it may to secure tor far you what shat you need chose things tire are fairly of the questions that wilt will be naked asked so ID taking the agricultural conlis 1 in order to answer all of the questions intelligently the tanner former will have to I 1 think about the matter matte a little before think the a enumerator murner ator mile calls on him he ought to III give the enumerator the most occur information me ate information he be mr can vi hat the indi vidual former farmer tells tella the enumerator Is likely to benefit any number of other farmers it Is a not too tell early now to get the facts straight in sour mind |