Show farmers r expected to gain valuable In information informant format 10 n from census auest ouest questionnaires ionn aires no group has a greater degree of self interest in the success of the decennial census of 1910 than has the farmer declared christy anderson andersen district supervisor of the census for this district agriculture as nn an industry has been in bad health tor for it a number of years said mr anderson just as a prudent person goes to his doctor for a complete checkup the farmers will nill in the census of 1040 get the most complete study of their symptoms that has ever eier been made facts to be collected on the seen even million farms will provide the farmers themselves es the government go and students of the farm problem with IN ath a guide to the future all tile the nation as a whole cannot pe be fundamentally prosperous unless the farmer is prosperous declared mr air anderson because the farms directly support 25 per cent of our population and the business of farming affects about half of all of our people besides being the producer of the notions nations food supply the farmer Is one of the largest customers of the business man the farmers ability to purchase goods gooda directly affects all business as well as their workers in the city the farmer Is one of the greatest suppliers of raw materials for industry vital changes throughout the i world have directly affected the prosperity of the american farmer explains mr anderson dislocation dislo lo of world markets due to wars and the efforts of foreign nations to make themselves self sufficient has made the american farm surplus burdensome by curtailing exports mechanization ot of farms has increased farm production while decreasing the number of consumers even on the farm greater mechanization in factories has reduced physical labor and the demand for staple food products lighter clothes have added to lo the cotton surplus and reduction of physical labor has resulted lit in a per capita decline la in tile the consumption of wheat the reduction of horses and mules from 2 to in favor of tractors and trucks have made it necessary to find a market for cash crops from acres acrea formerly used to raise horse feed the greatly reduced birth rate from 25 babies per to IT 17 means fewer mouths to feed in coming years the farmer Is therefore confronted with the problem of adjusting his production to meet thes thesa A vital cha changes ages and the census will tell him what these changes are tile the census figures will tell him what crops are being over produced what progress Is being made to use more of his crops in industrial plants industry has developed a fine statistical record which guides its future operations no one of the farmers can develop such a set of records for his own guidance because lie he has only his own figures census records of farms combined Is the only complete national picture of farm operations to tell the farmer which way he be Is going and to provide students of the serious farm problem with the facts to meet this problem mr anderson A urges all of the farmers of this oils section to cooperate with the enumerator so that a complete record of farm operations in this section can be made ile he suggests that farmers acquaint themselves with the essential facts about their 1939 1931 operations such as number of acres farmed number acres owned or rented value valtie of the production of each item number and classification of all livestock quantity and value of all products including milk butter eggs and even the volume of foods produced lind and cons consumed lamed on the farm the enumerator will want to know tin nn of acres lit in use for vach crop pasture lind hind land iving idle or hillow fil loft wood land amount of farm mortgage nort siKO interest rate ex for food feed f enrin a r ill implements automobiles truck 5 building material 1 I it 11 d equipment fertilizer and giso gaso line mr anderson Ande roii urges farmers to sot get help from their county agents many mani of whom tiro are able to supply I 1 sample copies of alie farm schedule |