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Digitized from Box 7 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 6, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
1974 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
A periodic census of all the American people is
required by the Constitution as the basis for apportioning
representation in Congress. In addition, Congress has
since 1840 provided for a special census of agriculture
to periodically meet the Nation's requirements for
reliable and timely statistics on this indispensable
segment of our economy.
The 1974 Census of Agriculture has just begun.
Statistics for more than 2.5 million farms will be collected
to provide measures of the farm industry and agricultural
economy for the Nation, each State, and every county. These
data will be aggregated for use by virtually every segment
of American society -- farmers and their representative
groups, the Congress, Federal agencies, State and local
governments, educational institutions, private businesses,
and consumer organizations.
Under the statute authorizing this Census, recipients
of census questionnaires are required to answer the questions
in those questionnaires that apply to them, their families,
and their farms to insure the accurate compilation of
these statistics. The sole purpose of the Census is to
secure general statistical information regarding agriculture
and related resources of the country. No person can be
harmed in any way by furnishing the information required.
The Census has nothing to do with taxation or the enforcement
of any National, State, or local law or ordinance. The
Census Act expressly provides that there will be no public
or private disclosure regarding any person or his affairs.
To assure the due protection of the rights and interests
of the persons furnishing information, every employee
of the Census Bureau is prohibited, under heavy penalty,
from disclosing any information that may thus come to his
knowledge.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the
United States of America, do hereby declare and make
known that under the law it is the duty of every person
from whom information is sought in connection with the
1974 Census of Agriculture to reply to the questions in
the questionnaire.
more
2
Prompt, complete, and accurate responses to all
official inquiries made by Census officials are of great
importance to our country. Therefore, I ask affected
Americans for their full cooperation in the 1974 Census
of Agriculture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this
SIXTH
day of : FEPRUARY , in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-five, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the
one hundred and ninety-ninth.
GERALD R. FORD
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