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1954 Farm Census
Underway Locally .
Field work in the 1954 Census of Agriculture is underway locally. A force of enumerators will start visiting every farm in the area, according to Field Supervisor Cameron H. Belland of Arlington, Va. ! ,
Farm census questionaires have been mailed to all farm operators The enumerators will visit. all local farms to collect the questionnaires and, if necessary, assist the farmer in filling out the report form.
The' 1954 Census of Agriculture is the 16th in a series of nationwide farm enumerators, the first of which was conducted in jjS40. The Census of Agriculture is taken at five-year intervals to provide up to date statistical information about more than; five million farms which supply food and raw materials for manufacture of goods used by the people of the United States,, now numbering about 162.5 million. The current census will yield information on the number and size of farms, acreage and harvest of crops, livestock production and inventories, selected farm facilities and equipment and selected farm expendi
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