3G ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The work of the Ollice of the Sohcitor in connection with the Food 

 id Drugs Act is disc 

 Food and Drugs Act. 



and Drugs Act is discussed under the heading "Enforcement of the 



CHANGES IN THE PEKSONNEL. 



The total force of officers and employees on the rolls of the Depart- 

 ment July 1, 1910, as sho^^^l by the report of the Appointment Clerk, 

 numbered 12,480, an increase of 1,340 for the fiscal year. The 

 force employed in Washington numbered 2,414 and 10,066 were 

 employed outside of Washington. During the year 34,267 appoint- 

 ments of every description were made, including 22,622 persons 

 appointed in the forests and fields and on stations in the various 

 States in the manual-labor grades for very short periods, generally 

 three months, or in other grades for six months or less. The number 

 of persons receiving probationary appointments, equivalent to abso- 

 lute appointment if retained in the service after the probationary 

 period, was 1,088. There were reinstated 56, and transferred from 

 other Departments 67. During the year there were 681 resignations 

 from the service, 61 died while in the service of the Department, 

 and 75 were dismissed for the good of the sei*vice because of their 

 misconduct. On July 1, 1910, there were 1,420 officers and employ- 

 ees on the statutory roll (positions specially provided for by Act 

 of Congress making appropriations for the Department), and 11,060 

 were paid from lump-sum appropriations. The large number of 

 emergency appointments is made necessary by the varied experi- 

 ments, demonstrations, meat and food inspection, work on the 

 National Forests, extinction of injurious insects, etc., where tem- 

 porary help is required, some of which was employed on July 1, 

 1910, making the apparent increase in the Department's employees 

 greater than the actual. 



WEATHER BUREAU. 



The operations of the Weather Bureau during the past year have 

 been marked by an enlargement of its service to the general public. 

 There has been a normal increase in the volume of its routine busi- 

 ness, while, at the same time, the prosecution of its work along lines 

 of scientific research has made encouraging progress. There has also 

 been increased activity in special investigations of the relations of 

 meteorology and climatology to the flow of water in streams, to 

 irrigation and reclamation projects, and to problems of forest and 

 plant growth, all of which are at present engaging the attention of 

 the country to an unusual extent, especially in portions of the West. 



