300 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Outside of Washington, D. C. : 



Classified 607 



Unclassified 5 



612 



Total commissioned employees 808 



Additional employees oulside of Washington, D. C. : 



Storm-warning displaymen 18G 



River observers 406 



Cotton region observers 104 



Corn and wheat region observers 124 



liainfall observers 81 



Sugar and rice region observers 7 



Special meteorological observers 66 



Special cranberry-marsh observers 8 



Special snow and ice observers 4 



Mountain snowfall observers 271 



Marine meteorological observers 30 



Cotton region and I'iver observers 27 



Corn and wheat region and river observers 9 



Sugar and rice region and river observers 2 



Cotton region and rainfall observers 19 



Corn and wheat region and rainfall observers 7 



Cotton region and special meteorological observer 1 



Special meteorological and river observer 1 



Corn and wheat region and mountain snowfall observer 1 



Total noncommissioned employees 1, 354 



Total paid employees * 2, 162 



Persons serving without compensation (except through the dis- 

 tribution of Government publications) : 



Cooperative observers and correspondents (omitting 388 paid 



observers enumerated elsewhere) 5,119 



Cooperative storm-warning displaymen 105 



Cooperative river observers 16 



Cooperative rainfall observers 12 



Cooperative mountain snowfall observer 1 



Cooperative special meteorological observers 24 



Cooperative special cranberry-marsh observer 1 



Cooperative marine meteorological observers 2, 552 



Total cooperatives 7, S30 



Total nunjerical strength 9,992 



Distrihution of the commissioned force, June 30, 1912. 



In Washington, D. C. : 



Accounts Division 'IS 



Climatological Division 17 



Executive branch 38 



Forecasting 1 



Instrument Division 11 



Library 5 



Division of Observations and Reports 27 



Observatory 1 



Publications Division 25 



River and Flood Division 3 



Supplies Division * 11 



Telegraph Division 12 



Verification section 2 



1 This total embraces all paid persons connocted with the bureau on June 30, 1912, 

 except 13 commissioni'd employofs alisont on th.it date and who had been granted leaves 

 of absence or furlough without pay for one month or more. 



2 One employee devotes a portion of his time at one of the map stations at the Dnited 

 States Capitol. ' 



