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THREE ACRES 18 FAR* SAT CENSUS OFFICIALS Farm b All LaaA Farmed by One Person, Whether II b Three Aerei Or Three Theaiaad Acre* A farm, according to the Census Bureau, is all the land farmed by one person, whether it is three acres or three thousand acres. Sounds simple, doesn't itt- Well, it wasn't so simple for the Government officials to decide what should be considered a farm by the enumera tors during the census to be taken in April. Milch study and years of prac tical experience wer^ necessary be fore the short, concise definition was agreed upon. Dr. L. C, Gray and Dr. O. E. Baker, of the Department jpf Agriculture, assisted Census officials in deciding upon what should be called a farm. The amount of farm land owned by one person has nothing to do with the definition of a farm so far as the Census Bureau is concerned. The question is not how milch land does he own but how much does he oper ate or farm. A man who owns 300 acres might farm half of it himself and rent the other half out to three tenants , 50 acres to each. This would go down on the census records as four farms because the land farmed by each man is considered as a unit. > On the other hand, one man might rent various tracts of land from 10 different owners. He might rent a few acres on shares, a few more from somebody else for money rent, and the rest from* other people on differ ent terms. The different pieces of land might be widely separated. If they were all farmed and managed by one man, however, they would all be put down together as one farm. If, however, a separate manager were hired to supervise a certain portion of the land, that portion would go sdown as a separate (ai NO* tract of land of less than three r.cres will be registered as a farm unless it produced more than |250 worth of farm products last year. In the Census of 1920 if a piece of land cf less than three acres was farmed by a man who gave his entire time to the task, it was listed as a farm legardless of how little it produced, 1 ut this year none of these small tracts will be counted unless they produced $250 worth of products, re gardless of how many people spent their full time cultivating the area. Women Suffering Bladder Irritation If function*! Bladder Irritation disturbs your sleep, or causes Burn ing or Itching Sensation, Backache, Leg Pains, or muscular aches, mak ing you feel tired, depressed, and discouraged, why not try the Cystax 48 Hour Test? Don't give up. Get Oyster today at any drag store. Put it to the test See for yourself bow quickly It works. Money back if it doesn't bring quick knprorement, and satisfy you completely. Try Cystez today. Only 80c. , IDA ? PEARL PCA*tCEL V /> Miss Ida Pearl Pearce, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Pearce, of Louisburg, whose engagement to Charles Tayloe Hoyt, of Washington, N. C., has been announced, the wedding to be an important event of early .Summer. (Jt. ia estimated. . that ..sprnTimataly 5,000 tracts of less than three acres In the United States are farmed by individuals who give their fall time to the occupation.) This change in the classification of farms is the only difference between the Census Bu reau's regulations for farm enumera tion in 1930 from those of ten years ago. There is necessarily a borderland between what is a farm and what is not Small places on the edge of towns or villages are often the homes of city workers who undertake to keep a cow, some chickens, and prob ably cut a little hay or raise a large garden or small crop. If the agri cultural products from such a place amounted to more than $250 dollars in 1929, it will be returned as a farm, regardless of how much or how little, time the city worker gave to his farming pursuits, and regardless of bow small the tract of land tended. Indeed, if a man living on Fifth Av enue of New York City raised more than $250 worth of strawberries or asparagus on a lot of 60 by 100 feet, bis.place would be returned as a farm. The value of the agricultural products is the criterion. On the other hand, a large country place of 16, 15, or 20 acres may net necessarily quality as a farm. Actual farming or agricultural operations must be carried out before any tract land will be classed in this cate gory. A large country estate of a retired capitalist is hot a farm if all the work done around the place con sists in mowing the lawns and clip ping the hedges. If the estate is of more than 3 acres, howevei a very small amount of agricultural products could give it the rank of a farm, re gardless of whether the products amounted to $250 or not. In such a case as this, it would be up to the judgment of the census enumerator to decide whether agricultural oper ations were being carried out Farm land is considered "operated" not on ly when cultivated crops are raised on U, but also when it is used to any significant extent for pasture or for cutting hay. A number of agricultural pursuits not usually considered by the aver age person as farming comes within the Census Bureau's definition. All market and truck gardens, fruit or chards, nurseries, greenhouses, poul try yards, places for keeping besa. and all dairies in or near cities, even tbough little land is employed, are, for census purposes, farms, provided they roduced in 1929 agricultural products of the value of at least $256. If such places are of more than three acres, they are farms regardless of the value of their produce. In 1925, the last year in which a farm census was taken in the United States, there were 15,151 farms of less than three acres. The total number of farms in the nation was 6.371,. MO. The general definition of a farm? "All the land which is directly farmed by one person, either by his own la bor alone or with the assistance of members of bis household or hired employees"?has remained practical ly the same since 1870, the first year In which it was used by the Census Mother! Clean Child's Bowels "California Fig Syrup" is Dependable Laxative for Sick Children Been If ctom, feverish, bilious, ooss lUptM or full of cold, cbildrcn Ion Oi* pleasant taste of "California Fig Syrup" and it never fails to sweeten tke stomach and open tht bowels. A teaspoccful today may prsrsnt a sich child tor nrrow. 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