The story of the census, 1790-1915Bureau of the census . olume IV relates to reports present statistics in regard to such details as sex,age, marital condition, birthplace, mother tongue, school attend-ance, illiteracy, ownership of homes, etc. With reference to occu-pations, the numbers engaged in nearly 5,000 individual vocationsare shown. Volumes V, VI, and VII, with a total of 2,917 pages, relate to Agriculture,agriculttue. Volume V is a general report and analysis, for theUnited States as a whole. Volumes VI and VII contain detailedstatistics for individual States and cou
The story of the census, 1790-1915Bureau of the census . olume IV relates to reports present statistics in regard to such details as sex,age, marital condition, birthplace, mother tongue, school attend-ance, illiteracy, ownership of homes, etc. With reference to occu-pations, the numbers engaged in nearly 5,000 individual vocationsare shown. Volumes V, VI, and VII, with a total of 2,917 pages, relate to Agriculture,agriculttue. Volume V is a general report and analysis, for theUnited States as a whole. Volumes VI and VII contain detailedstatistics for individual States and counties. The data shown cover such matters as acreage, value, tenure,mortgages, size of farms, live stock, crops, irrigation, etc. Volumes VIII, IX, and X, which comprise an aggregate of 3,228 Manufactures,pages, are devoted to the subject of manufactures. Volume VIIIis a general report and analysis, for the country as a IX presents detailed reports for the individual States andfor principal cities. Volume X contains reports on 52 individual. 19 THE STORY OF THE CENSUS Mines andquarries. The field work. Schedules. industries, together with general statistics of manufactures forthirteen leading metropolitan districts. The figures given relate to such subjects as number of establish-ments, persons engaged, capital, salaries and wages, expenses,hours of labor, products, etc. Volume XI, of 369 pages, covers the subject of mines andquarries. It presents data as to geographic distribution, numberof enterprises, persons engaged, salaries and wages, hours of labor,products, expenses, capital, etc. The total number of pages in the twelve quarto (iiK ^Y 9inches) volumes of the Thirteenth Census reports, including theAbstract, is 11,456. A few of the fundamental data presentedin these reports are given in the tables on page 35. The statistics of agriculture were collected by the populationenumerators, but those relating to manufactures and to mines andquarries were gathered by
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