• Ag census outlines U.S. farm power
LANCASTER - A week
ago Lancaster Farming
published statistics of the
1974 Agricultural Census - a
study which only then
became available to the
public after four years of
fact finding and processing.
This year marks the
beginning of a new Census
period for agriculture,
results from which will be
available four years from
now.
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ASK YOUR NEAREST DEALER
For All The Details!
BRANDT’S FARM
SUPPLY INC.
601 E. High St.
Elizabethtown, Pa.
Ph; (717) 367-1221
H. DANIEL WENGER
& BRO. INC.
RDI, Hamburg, Pa.
Ph: (215)488-1025
DONALD UPPERMAN
Rt 3 N. Franklin St.
Chambersburg, Pa.
Ph (717)264-6007
According to information
received by Lancaster
Farming in Washington,
D.C. last month, the Bureau
of the Census is tuning up
agam to record the situation
on the nation’s farms.
Report forms for the next
census are being readied for
mailing in late December to
collect 1978 data from the
country’s 2.5 million far
mers. All of the facts about
farming - so well understood
SURGE
JIM’S SALES LONGACRE ELECTRICAL
& SERVICE SVC. IRC.
Oak Bottom Rd., Box 37 Bally, Pa.
Quarryville, Pa Ph; (215) 845-2261
Ph.(717)786-1533
by persons close to it - are
not self-evident. They are
gathered in this highly
specialized collection effort.
A key to success in this effort
is the cooperation of farmers
themselves in filling out
their census report forms
and mailing them back, so
that the continuing story of
American agriculture can be
told, says the Census
Bureau.
Following is background
LESTER B. BOLL
ROI, Lititz, Pa.
Ph (717)626-6198
PEN W. HOSTETTER
RD 2, Annville, Pa
Ph: (717)867-2896
information on the Census’
purpose, coverage, and use.
The U.S. census of
agriculture provides a
periodic statistical picture of
the nation’s fanning, ran
ching, and related activities.
The census, taken every 10
years from 1840 to 1920 and
every five years for 1925
through 1974, is undergoing a
reference-year change. Two
4-year censuses will be taken
for 1978 and 1982, thus ad
justing the data-reference
year to coincide with the
censuses of business and
industry for 1982.
Thereafter, the agriculture
census will revert to a 5-year
cycle. It currently reports
data on agricultural
production, resources, and
inventories for every county,
State, and region of the
Uniteid States, and for the
Nation. It provides the only
set of uniform agricultural
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 6,1978
data at the county level. The
1974 census not only included
farms in the 50 states but
also in Puerto Rico, Guam,
and the Virgin Islands, and
agricultural service
establishments in the United
States.
The censuses f0r'1969 and
1974 were taken by mail;
most prior censuses were
conducted by personal in
terview. In addition to the
periodic census of
agriculture, a variety of
related surveys are con
ducted by the Census Bureau
at various times to provide
data on subjects, such as
farm finance, horticulture,
cotton ginning, corporations,
and irrigation and drainage;
some of these, at times, run
concurrently or in
association with the major
census of agriculture.
In the first censuses of 1840
and 1850, farmers were
asked only about livestock in
terms of the number of
cattle, milch cows, and
working oxen. Items such as
production of Indian com,
pounds of cheese made,
pounds of silk cocoons, and
gallons of wine produced
were also enumerated in
addition to other items,
many of which are similar to
those questions asked m
recent censuses.
As the Nation’s
agriculture expanded
westward, the number of
farms and ranches grew and
gradually increased in
mechanization, specializat
ion, and complexity. The
scope of the census of
agriculture also had to ex
pand at the same time to
meet the needs for data to
measure these rapid
developments. For 1974, the
principal categories of data
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