Excerpt from United States Census of Agriculture, 1925, Vol. 3: Reports for States, With Statistics for Counties and a Summary for the United States, The Western States, Mountain Division: Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Pacific Division: Washington, Oregon, CaliforniaThe limited character of this census is apparent from the fact that, while the schedule used in the census of agriculture in' 1920 contained 415 inquiries con cerning the operator, acreage, values, indebtedness, Operation, and production of the farm, that used in 1925 Contained only 178 inquiries. Copies of the schedule and the instructions to enumerators relative to its preparation in the field appear as an appendix to this volume.A schedule was returned for each of the 6, 640 farms in the 48 States and the District of Columbia. The information on these schedules was secured by actual canvass by a force of enumerators Operating under 204 super visors. The schedules were given a preliminary review by the supervisors, and on reaching the Bureau of the Census they were first counted, arranged by minor civil divisions, and numbered, after which they were examined and edited by a force of clerks numbering 366, to eliminate inconsistencies. The information was then transferred to cards by the punch system by a force of operators num bering 691. Eight different forms of cards were used. The punched cards numbered an average of cards for each farm schedule. This process was followed by passing the cards through electric sorting and tabulating machines, the latter of which automatically printed the county totals on result slips. The equivalent of 230, 670, 515 cards were sorted and 167, 420, 618 cards tabulated. The results were examined and summarized by a force of clerks numbering 221, and the tables for the bulletins and this report were prepared by a force of clerks numbering 123.The results of the census were announced as soon after the enumeration as they could be compiled. Press summaries giving preliminary figures were issued, beginning March 10, 1925, for each county and State and for the United States, showing the number of farms by tenure, and, for the South, by color of operator, the farm acreage, by uses of land, values of land and buildings, numbers of horses, mules, cattle, and swine on farms, and acreage and production of principal crops.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.