{"id":8340,"date":"2019-01-30T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8340"},"modified":"2019-01-30T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T16:44:39","slug":"no-farm-of-less-than-3-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8340","title":{"rendered":"No Farm of Less Than 3 Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8363\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8363\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/image-44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/image-44.png 349w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/image-44-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/image-44-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1850 agricultural census instructions<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Census instructions matter, but genealogists do not always read them as often as they should. The image that is a part of this post comes from a set of instructions for the United States federal agricultural census schedules found on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/history\/pdf\/agcensusschedules.pdf\">www.census.gov<\/a>\u00a0website. It says that: &#8220;No farm will be reported of less than 3 acres, unless $500 worth of produce has been actually sold off from it during the last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you have an ancestor in the US agricultural census schedules, have you thought about what size and type of farm qualified? Was your ancestor who had a large truck garden from which sold produce supposed to have been enumerated?<\/p>\n<p>Have you thought about reading the instructions?<\/p>\n<p>Hard telling what you might learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census instructions matter, but genealogists do not always read them as often as they should. The image that is a part of this post comes from a set of instructions for the United States federal agricultural census schedules found on the\u00a0www.census.gov\u00a0website. It says that: &#8220;No farm will be reported of less than 3 acres, unless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}