REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 31 



WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT IN 1912. 



PERSONNEL. 



The number of officers and employees on the rolls of the department 

 Jidy 1, 1012, is 1,154 greater than one year ago, and 11,414 more than 

 on July 1, 1897, the first report under my administration. The em- 

 ployees located in Washington number 2,815, while 11,043 are em- 

 ployed elsewhere. There are now 371 more employees of the depart- 

 ment in Washington than the entire enrollment 15 years ago, and the 

 number located outside of Washington is 371 less than the total in- 

 crease, indicating how largely the department's work has changed 

 from office and laboratory work to field and forest investigations. 



During the year 45,932 changes of every description were made, 

 including the appointment of 32,975 temporary employments for 

 periods of six months or less, in the forests and fields and on stations 

 in the various States outside of Washington, D. C. The number of 

 persons receiving probationary appointments in the classified service 

 (equivalent to absolute appointment if the appointee is retained in 

 the department after the probationary period) was 1,361. Eighty- 

 four persons were reinstated and 52 were transferred from other 

 departments, 666 resigned, 33 died in the service, and 50 were re- 

 moved from the service on account of misconduct. 



On July 1, 1912, there were 3,938 officers and employees on the 

 statutory roll, comprising positions specifically appropriated for by 

 Congress (a decrease of 70 during the year), and 9,920 were paid 

 from lump-sum appropriations (an increase of 1,284 over last year), 

 making a total enrollment of 13,858, not including temporary 

 " field " employees. 



There were 2,257 promotions in salary in all branches of the 

 department and 143 reductions in salary. In the city of Washing- 

 ton 1,972 males and 843 females are employed, and outside of Wash- 

 ington the males number 10,411 and the females 632, the total female 

 employees being 11.9 per cent of the male. 



INSECTICIDE AND FirN,GICIDE BOARD, 



By the provisions of an act approved April 26, 1910, and known as 

 the insecticide act of 1910, this department was made responsible for 

 the collection and examination of samples of articles coming within 

 the meaning of the act, and to report violations of the act to the 

 Department of Justice. 



To assist me in this work a board was created consisting of four 

 scientists from the Bureaus of Animal Industry, Chemistry, En- 

 tomology, and Plant Industry. 



