VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 51 



ADDRESS BY COL. J. H. BRIGHAM. 



Assistant Secretary Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C, at Bradford, Feb. 10, 1899. 



Mr. President and Gentleme?i of the Conve?itio?i : 



The work of the Department of Agriculture has become so 

 extensive that it is impossible to treat of it in detail on this 

 occasion, but I will try to give you a general idea of what we 

 are seeking to accomplish. 



Our desire is to make the Department of Agriculture valu- 

 able to the American farmer and we are laboring earnestly in 

 many directions for the accomplishment of this purpose. 



Last year the total appropriation for the department was 

 $3,509,202. This year Congress has increased that amount by 

 $127,000. This appropriation is divided among two bureaus 

 and about twenty divisions, having a total of 2,812 employes. 

 The largest branch of the department is the Weather Bureau 

 service, which receives $1,022,472 of the appropriation and 

 gives employment to 1,195 persons at various points in the 

 United States and in the recently established stations in the 

 West Indies. 



Next in point of importance is the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, having an appropriation of $950,000 and 1,050 em- 

 ployes. 



The Division of Statistics has 136 employes and an appro- 

 priation of $110,000 ; the Division of Publications 66 employes 

 and $80,000 appropriation. Various other divisions with the 

 amounts appropriated for maintaining them and the number of 

 employes are as follows : 



Division of Botany, $28,800 ; 21 employes. 



Division of Entomology, $29, 500; 21 employes. 



Division of Pomology, $16,000 ; 12 employes. 



Division of Seeds, $130,000 ; 34 employes. 



Biological Survey, $27,560 ; 16 employes. 



Division of Vegetable Pathology, $26,500; 15 employes. 



Division of Chemistry, $32, 300 ; 22 employes. 



Division of Soils, $16,300 ; 10 employes. 



Division of Agrostology, $18,100 ; 18 employes. 



Division of Forestry, $48,520; 12 employes. 



Gardens and Grounds, $30,500 ; 28 employes. 



Section of Foreign Markets, $15,000 ; 4 employes. 



Road Inquiries, $S,ooo ; 4 employes. 



Office of Experiment Stations, $45,000 ; 33 employes. 



