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11. Farms

Is this building the center of one (or more) farm(s)?
[] Yes
[] No
If yes:
First farm
a. ____ First and last name of the farmer:
b. Acreage (Do not count woods, meadows, undergrowth ,quarries, pools, building sites, parks and flower gardens)
[] 1 less than one hectare
[] 2 1 to less than 5 hectares
[] 3 5 to less than 10 hectares
[] 4 10 to less than 15 hectares
[] 5 15 to less than 20 hectares
[] 6 20 to less than 50 hectares
[] 7 50 hectares or more
c. Specialization:
If the farm has a surface area of less than 5 hectares, indicate its specialization:
[] 1 Viticulture
[] 2 Arboriculture
[] 3 Market gardening
[] 4 Pig farming or aviculture
[] 5 Other specializations:
___ Specify
[] 6 Farm not specialized
Second Farm
a. First and last name of the farmer:
b. Acreage ( do not count woods, meadows, undergrowth, quarries, ponds, building sites, parks and flower gardens)
[] 1 less than one hectare
[] 2 1 to less than 5 hectares
[] 3 5 to less than 10 hectares
[] 4 10 to less than 15 hectares
[] 5 15 to less than 20 hectares
[] 6 20 to less than 50 hectares
[] 7 50 hectares or more.
c. Specialization
If the farm has a surface area of less than 5 hectares, indicate its specialization
[] 1 Viticulture
[] 2 Arboriculture
[] 3 Market gardening
[] 4 Pig farming or aviculture
[] 5 Other specializations:
___ Specify
[] 6 Farm not specialized

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3.3.8. Question 11: Farms.
a. Definition of a farm.
You will define a farm as:

1) All kinds of earth, no matter what the land surface, with the purpose of agricultural plant or animal production, under the direction of a person practicing an agricultural profession, truck farmer, arborist, or, more generally, all other professions implying the cultivation of land;
2) All kinds of cultivated earth (with the exception of woods, moors, building land, parks and flower gardens) having one hectare of land if this is about mixed farming (workable lands, prairies, crops), or at least 20 acres if this is about specialized crops (marketable crops, fruit trees, flowers, vines, etc.) and that no matter what the main activity of the person who farms it.
3) Most often, but this is not necessarily the case, such a farm is managed by a person who will declare an agricultural profession on question 12 of his/her individual form (main profession) acting as owner/farmer, farmer, or share cropper (rubric 2 in question 14 of the individual form).

However, the management of a farm (in the larger meaning of the second paragraph above) could be a secondary occupation or secondary for the people having declared other principal occupations in question 12 of their individual form (factory workers, merchants or rural artisans, etc.). It might even happen that the person who manages such a farm declares himself without a profession (retired, retired from business, etc.).
b. Center of agricultural production
You will consider, according to the case, as the center of agricultural production of which all or only part of the buildings is found on the territory of your district and is the subject of the one (or several) house forms filled out by you. (1)
- the farmer's residence: owner (direct emphasis), farmer, sharecropper or paid manager, if he lives in the town (where his dwelling is found, among the agricultural buildings considered or, on the other hand, outside that area, provided that it is found on the territory of that town.)
- The principal agricultural building, if the farmer resides outside of the town and if, furthermore, on the territory of his/her town where he resides, the farmer does not have any agricultural building.
c. Procedure to follow
In theory, a building (or group of buildings) being the subject of a type 1 house form on question 1 (farm, agricultural buildings) is always an agricultural center (answer yes to question 11), except in the two following cases:
- the farmer lives outside the area where the agricultural buildings are found but nevertheless in the town (in your district or in another district of the town);
- the farmer resides outside the town and, on the territory of his/her town of residence, he has other agricultural buildings.
Opposite of the first of these two cases listed above, you will not forget to consider as an agricultural center (answer yes to question 11 of the corresponding house form) the farmer's dwelling (even if he declared a non- agricultural profession in question 12 of his/her individual form, or again, has declared to be without a profession or retired) who resides, in your district, outside of the area where the agricultural buildings of his farm are located, on the condition, however, that the buildings are located, all or in part, on the territory of the town.
[Footnote] (1) Remember that you should not establish a house form for a construction which is not very important: gardening shed, isolated hangar, etc.
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A farm having its center in your district can extend onto other districts and even onto neighboring towns. The surface are which you will indicate on the house form corresponding to the center (in question 11) is the total surface area of the farm.
On the other hand, if you only find plots that are not built (1) on a farm whose center is located in another district, you do not have to do anything about this farm: it will be mentioned by the census agent of that other district, on the house form corresponding to the center.
In order to allow you to find the agricultural centers of your district without missing any of them, city hall will probably give you the list. If not, you can use the file of the farms held by city hall. In any case, you should check the indications of this list or the file and bring them up- to- date (the appearance or disappearance of farms can escape notice by city hall; the surface areas may have changed).
[Footnote] (1) This means not containing any counted building (see the footnote of the preceding page).