In 1899, municipal officials throughout Mexico sent tables of agricultural statistics to Mexico City to assist in the preparation of a special publication for the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition, where the Mexican government hoped it would impress the world with Mexico's modernity and potential. Though the activity was nothing new, the ways in which municipal officials provided the requested information confounded the national project of both understanding and representing the Mexican countryside. The statistics were never published. This article serves as an introduction to a new dataset and collection of maps built from transcriptions of the manuscript tables. It also demonstrates that regular participation in statistical undertakings served as a means for provincial Mexicans to complicate and confound the process of state consolidation. Here I see, rather than refusal or rebellion, ready participation in state knowledge projects as another way in which those beyond Mexico City managed their relationships with President Porfirio Díaz's technocratic government. Engaging with conceptions of governmentality on one side and data management on the other, I use the 1899 agricultural statistics to highlight how unruly participation in data collection frustrated the practice's centralizing and standardizing project.

1899 年，墨西哥各地的市政官员向墨西哥城发送了农业统计表，以协助为 1900 年巴黎世界博览会准备一份特别出版物，墨西哥政府希望在博览会上墨西哥的现代化和潜力给世界留下深刻印象。尽管这项活动并不是什么新鲜事，但市政官员提供所要求信息的方式却混淆了理解和代表墨西哥乡村的国家项目。统计数据从未公布。本文介绍了一个新的数据集和根据手稿表的转录构建的地图集。它还表明，定期参与统计工作是墨西哥省份使国家整合过程复杂化和混乱的一种手段。在这里，我看到，准备参与国家知识项目，而不是拒绝或反抗，是墨西哥城以外的人处理与波菲里奥·迪亚斯总统的技术官僚政府关系的另一种方式。一方面考虑治理的概念，另一方面考虑数据管理，我使用 1899 年的农业统计数据来强调不守规矩地参与数据收集是如何阻碍实践的集中化和标准化项目的。