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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1919
Page
2
The census bureau uses mechanical counters and sorters to process survey data. Sorting machines handle 300 cards a minute, counting 500, and tabulating 400. In 1914 there were 275,000 manufacturing establishments. 1920 estimates rise to about 300,000. Farm statistics inform the Department of Agriculture’s farmer aid programs.
Raleigh county fell short in The Home Service Fund drive of the Salvation Army and other West Virginia counties also missed quotas. The Raleigh county total reached 844.92 dollars with 479.60 in Mrs C H Mead name and 365.54 in C L Beckner hands. State quota was 50000 dollars. Raleigh total plus others left West Virginia short at 43600. Officials cite lack of machinery to reach all communities rather than unwilling donors. Census bureau prints a state supplement with census figures.
The 1790 census took 18 months to enumerate. In 1920 the census bureau plans to finish national enumeration in two to four weeks and publish population figures within three months after completion.
The last decennial census counted 6,361,502 farms valued over 40 billion dollars and the 1920 census is expected to exceed 7,000,000 farms. A manufacturers census was first taken in 1810 and will be taken with the Fourteenth Decennial census and every two years thereafter.
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