Farm Information
.Most fie Furnished
- When Listing Taxes
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List of Questions and
Answers Listed For
Those Concerned
'With the month of January set
aside for listing property for taxation,
farm owners and tenants must furnish
some facts for the list takers. This
information is not used for tax pur
poses, but is secured for the Crop Re
porting Service.
For the information of those con-j
cemed, the following questions and
answers are furnished by the Crop Re
porting Service:
Question: What is the farm census |
good for? ,
Answer: The farm census is the
only source of reliable county facts
that farmers and farm groups have
for planning future operations. It is
a working tool that enables them to
find out where they are so they can
■plan where they are going—to profit
by past experience.
Question: Doesn’t the United
States Census’ provide the same infor
mation ?
Answer: Yes, the U. S. Census pro
vides basically the same information—
but .the U. S. Census is taken only
once in five years; then it is one to
three years before .the information is
made public. The North Carolina
farm census is taken every year on
the State, county, and township levels.
By planting time of. the same year,
individual summaries begin to come
in from the Crop Reporting Service
in Raleigh, enabling farmers to take
advantage of the information while it
is still freeh.
Question: Is the information in the
census report used to determine a
farmer’s taxes?
Answer: No, all information given
in the farm census is confidential —it
cannot be used for tax purposes. The
farmer is protected by law and need
not hesitate to give a complete and
accurate report.
Question: What is the greatest ad
vantage of the farm census?
Answer: Probably the greatest sin
gle advantage is the thinking habit
that it creates in the farmer. Be
cause they are called on each year
to supply this information, these farm
| ers are conscious of their lands and
I their crops—and in turn they do a
■better job of fanning because they
HHbw what they have in the land and
Hive a pretty good idea what they
get out of it.
Question: What relation does the
farm census have to crop acreage al
lotments ?
Answer: When further crop acre
age allotments are created—and they
will be when conditions warrant it—
the farm census information will be
the guide used in determining county
acreages. *
Question: Is county participation
in the survey voluntary?
Answer: No, each county is re
quired by law, through its County
Commissioners, to see that the census
•s taken annually. The State pays
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twenty cents ito the county for every
acceptable report on a minimum basis
to help ease the financial burden on
the county. But* the success of the
census does depend largely on vol
untary participation rather than com
pulsion.
Question: Is the farm census a du
plication of efforts carried on by
other agencies and organizations ?
Answer: No. Some farm organi
zations do conduct surveys on the
county level, but these are usually of
a specialized nature and are seldom
as comprehensive as the farm census
summary. The farm census is the
only survey designated by State law
for the purpose of gathering informa
tion for preparing official estimates.
Question: How can the summary
be accurate if some enumerators esti
mate a farmer’s crop without even
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contacting him?
Answer: This has been known to
happen in some isolated cases that is
why statisticians of the Crop Report
ing Service study each farm record
carefully and compare them with prev
ious years. Discrepancies in the re
port will be investigated and correct
ed or the report will be eliminated as
unacceptable.
Question: Suppose a farmer is out
of the county a great deal and is not
available when the survey is made —
how can he make his report?
Answer: He can designate a ten
ant or some one else who is familiar
with his farm to report for him. This
is provided for in an amendment to
the original State Farm Census Act
of 1921. Also, forms for making
census reports are available for use
of absentee farmers.
Question: Do tax listers have to
list the farm census rport ?
Answer: That is up-to the discre
tion of County Commissioners. Origi
nally the law required tax listers to
report for the census, but a 1951
amendment provides that Commission
ers may appoint any one of their
Choosing for the job. Incentive or re
ward pay is provided by the State as
an aid to getting a better census enu
meration.
Question: Does the State provide!
any other assistance with the farm
census ?
Answer: \es. Another provision
of the Act as amended makes it pos
sible for County Commissioners to
call on county farm and home dem
onstration agents and vocational agri
culture teachers for cooperation in an
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educational capacity. They can help
by conducting classes for enumerators
and other interested persons.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES
Services at the First Christian
Ihi.'vn have been announced as fp’
o'A’s by the pastoi, the ttev. E C
V.exanUe..
Bible School, Suadaj morning at 11
o’clock; morning service at 11 o’clock;
evening service at 7:30 o’clock. Wed
nesday Evening Bible Class meets at
j :30 o’clock. Everyone is welcome to
j young people s meeting at 6:30 P. M.’
> .11 servu.es.
It’s not the brains that matter most,
but that which guides them—the
character, the heart, generous quali
ties, progressive ideas.
—Dostoyevsky.
MASONS MEET TONIGHT
Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. &
A. M., will meet tonight (Thursday)
at 8 o’clock in the Court House. New
officers, which were recently install
ed, will fill their various stations and
places and C. T. Griffin, the new mas
ter will make committee assignments.
For that reason he urges a full at
tendance.
Emergency Fund
Mother—Robert is complaining that
since he got a car you have been
holding back some of his allowance.
Is that true-?
Father—Yes, I am keeping back
part of it to pay his fines.
A man never shows his own charac
ter so plainly as by the way he por
trays another. —J. P. Richter.
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