956 



ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ESTABLISHMENT AND GROWTH OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 



AGRICULTURE. 



The Department of Afxriculture was established July 1, 1.SG2, 

 according to the provisions of an act approved May 15, 1862 (Stat.L., 

 vol. 12, chap. 72, pp. 387, 388). 



Growth of the force of the department from Sept. SO, 186S, to July 1, 1910. 



Date. 



18M, Sppt. 30, 

 1807, Sept. 30 

 1871, Sept. 30 

 1873, Sept. 30, 

 1875, Sept. 30 

 1877, Sept. 30 

 1879, June 30. 

 1881, July 1.. 

 1883, July 1.. 

 1885, July 1.. 

 1887, July 1.. 

 1889, July 1.. 

 1891, Jul vl 1. 

 1893, July 1.. 

 1895, July 1.. 



Number 



ctii- 

 ployed. 



29 



99 



84 



92 



90 



77 



93 



108 



239 



214 



328 



488 



1,.577 



1,870 



2,043 



Date. 



1897, July \ . 



1899, July 1 . , 



1900, Nov. 10 



1901, July 1. 



1902, July 1. 



1903, July 1. 



1904, July 1. 



1905, July 1 . 

 1900, July 1 . 

 1907, July 1. 

 190S, July 1 . 

 1909, Mar. 4. 



1909, July 1. 



1910, July 1. 



1911, July 1. 



Number 



rni- 

 ployi'd. 



,444 



,965 



,128 



.388 



789 



200 



504 



,446 



242 



,107 



420 



280 



,140 



480 



,704 



' The large increase of July 1, 1891, resulted from the transfer of the Weather Bureau to the Department 

 of Agriculture on that date. 



COMMISSIONERS AND SECRETARIES OF AGRICULTURE. 



Nam^ and length of service of each Commissioner and of each Secretary of Agriculture 

 since the organization of the United States Department of Agriculture, July 1, 1862. 



Names. 



Isaac Newton 



John W. Stokes 



Horace Capron 



Frederick Watts 



Win. G. Le Due... 



Geo. B. Loriuj,' 



Norman J. Colniaa. 



Do 



J. M. Busk 



J. Sterling Morton.. 

 James Wilson 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Bank. 



Commissioner. 



do 



do 



do 



(:ij 



do 



do 



Secretary 



do 



.•do. 



.do. 



.do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



Appointed under the 

 administration of 

 President- 



Abraham Lincoln 



Andrew Johnson 



do 



Ulysses S. Grant , 



liulherford B. Hayes., 



James A. Garfield 



Grover Cleveland 



.do. 



Benjamin Harrison.. 

 Grover Cleveland — 

 William McKinley... 



do 



Theodore Boosevelt. 

 \\iUiaiu II. Taft 



When ap- 

 pointed. 



July 

 June 

 Dec. 

 Aug. 

 July 

 July 

 Apr. 

 Feb. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 



1,1862 

 20, 1807 

 5,1867 

 1,1871 

 1,1877 

 1,1881 

 4,1885 

 13,1889 

 7, 1889 

 7,1893 

 6,1897 

 0, 1901 

 6,1905 

 5, 1909 



Service ter- 

 minated. 



June 

 Dec. 

 July 

 June 

 June 

 Apr. 

 Feb. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 



19, 1867 



4,1867 



31,1871 



30, 1877 



30, 1881 



3,1885 



12, 1889 



6, 1S89 



6, 1893 



5, 1897 



