—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May €, 1978
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Ag census outlines
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include any place operated
under the control of an in
dividual management on
which the sales of
agricultural products
amounted, or normally
would amount, to $l,OOO in
the census year.
Data are also published for
1974 for the smaller
agricultural operations that
would have qualified as
farms under the prior
definition but had sales of
less than $l,OOO. (That
definition included as farms
places of less than 10 acres if
the sales of agricultural
products amounted, or
normally would amount, to
at least $250. Places of 10
acres or more were counted
as farms if the sales of
agricultural products
amounted, or normally
would amount, to at least
$50.)
Data on agriculture in the
United States have been
published periodically for
every census from 1840
(every 10 years up to 1920
and every five years
thereafter). Most of the
statistics are issued in
printed reports; those for
1974 include the following
senes.
Pnor to publication of the
final census figures, a
separate 4-page report for
each county in the United
States with 10 or more farms
was released giving
statistical highlights on
basic data items, including
the principal crops and
livestock for each county,
along with comparable data
for 1969. At the earliest
possible date, this series
provides usable information
on a limited number of
major items - in less detail
than the final reports. For
Agricultural servies, a
preliminary 2-page state
report was issued showing
the number of agricultural
service establishments,
gross receipts, and payroll.
A separate report was
published for each of the 50
States and for the United
States, by State. Volume I
reports also were published
for Puerto Rico, Guam, and
the Virgin Islands, con
tabling data for each area
and its subdivisions. Each of
the State reports is divided
into four chapters:
1. Thirty-three tables
showing detailed data at the
State level.
2. Thirty-three tables of
selected data for counties
and the State, organized by
subject.
3. County data, by subject,
for miscellaneous crop and
livestock items found in
relatively few counties.
4. Fifteen tables of
detailed data for each
county.
Volume IL Statistics, by
Subject - This report
presents statistics, by
Subject, for the United
States, regions, geographic
divisions, and States. It also
includes some data
tabulated in greater detail
than shown in the Volume I
reports.
Volume m. Agricultural
Services - This volume
covers agricultural service
establishments at the U.S.,
State, and county level.
Volume IV. Special
-Reports - This is a series of
reports including the
Procedural History,
Coverage Evaluation,
Ranking Counties and
States, and the Graphic
Summary. The latter offers
a profile of the nation s
agricultural system in a
series of U.S. maps, a
number of which are printed
in color. The graphic
summary and the ranking
counties report are two of
the most widely used census
of agriculture publications.
Three reports, based on
surveys drawn from the 1974
census, contain information
on the number of cor
porations and partnerships
engaged in agriculture, their
organizational structure and
production characteristics,
the extent of their nonfarm
business activity, and
agricultural production and
marketing contracts.
Agricultural data also are
presented in convenient
digest form in several
Bureau publications, Pocket
Data Book, USA (a paper
back issued every 2 years),
the annual Statistical Ab
stract of the United States,
Historical Statistics of the
United States From Colonial
Times to 1970, and the
periodic County and City
Data Book. Certain reports
from the 1970 Census of
Population and Housing and
the 1972 Economic Censuses
contain some data related to
agriculture, such as farm
residence or employment,
food processing, tran
sportation of agricultural
products, and foreign trade
involving such items.
The Census Bureau and
the Economic Research
Service of the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture
cooperatively prepare
certain reports, for example,
the annual Farm Population
of the United States, Series
P-27. Publications of the
Department of Agriculture
and various States also
contain additional in
formation.
The printed summary
reports and some of the
special reports are also
made available on
microfiche. Summary data,
available on computer tapes
contain the same data
published in Chapters 3 and 4
of Volume I.
Published reports from the
agriculture censuses and
surveys are available for use
in nearly 1,200 depository
libraries across the country.
These are mainly college,
university, and large public
libraries, but many smaller
libraries in agricultural
areas have them also. (A list
is available from the Census
Bureau on request.) The
publications are available
for reference and/or order at
U.S. Department of Com
merce district offices and
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JOHN D. TALLMAN
R.D. 1. Box 164
Dauphin, Pa. 17018
Phone: 717-921-2476 or 717-647-2623
Census Bureau regional
offices, or they can be
purchased from the
Superintendent of
Documents, U.S. Govern
ment Printing Office,
Washington, D.C. 20402, or
through its bookstores in
other parts of the nation.
Microfiche copies of
published reports, summary
tapes, and special
tabulations of census or
survey results can be or
dered from the Data User
Servies Division, Bureau of
the Census, Washington,
D.C. 20233. There are also
several private summary
tape processing centers that
are able to provide tape
copies and services to their
customers.
The Census Bureau assists
its data users in a number of
ways. It publishes a catalog
and the monthly Data User
News, and issues guides to
particular segments of its
statistics. The Bureau also
conducts workshops on the
availability and use of
statistics. It offers exhibits
and resources for the con
ventions of interested
national organizations, and
each Bureau regional office
has a user services specialist
trained to answer inquiries
and assit in locating data.
Inquiries and suggestions
about the agriculture
statistics program and other
Bureau activities are in
vited. Writeorcall:
Chief, Agriculture Division
Bureau of the Census
Washington, D C. 20233
Sales contest
winner named
ELIZABETHTOWN ~
Claude Keefer, marketing
manager at Plain and Fancy
Egg Ranch, Inc.,
Elizabethtown, recently
announced the winner of the
egg producing and
marketing company’s
winter sales contest.
Winning first prize for
securing new egg business in
the three-month campaign
was D. Kerry Felty of Li&tz,
sales supervisor at Miller
and Hartman Wholesale
Foods, Lancaster.
According to a recent
national survey conducted
by the National Association
of Realtors, the median size
real estate firm in the United
States has 14 employees. The
figure includes both ad
ministrative and sales
employees.
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