388 DEPARTMENTAL REPUKTS. 



Skilled laborers 



Engineers 1 



Firemen ^ 3 



Messengers 17 



Watchmen 4 



Charwomen . 3 



Laborers 23 



Professors of meteorology 7 



Medico-climatologist 1 



Forecast officials 7 



Local forecast officials 28 



Section directors . 31 



Student assistants 15 



Inspectors 3 



Meteorological observers . 263 



River observers 125 



Rainfall observers 33 



Cotton-region observers 140 



Corn and wheat observers . 133 



Fruit and wheat observers 19 



Sugar and rice observers .■ 8 



Storm- warning displaymen ... 135 



Compositors, proof readers, lithographers, printers, pressmen, folders, and 



feeders 44 



Agents and station agents 7 



Messengers on stations 106 



1,268 



Total employees 3, 789 



RECAPITULATION. 



Total number of officers and employees in the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 ciilture on — 



July 1 , 1893 1 , 870 



July 1,1902 3,789 



Increase 1,919 



Number of officers and employees in the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 onJuly 1, 1902: 

 Executive officers and administrative assistants, clerks, messengers, and 



watchmen 1. 209 



Scientists and scientific assistants 2, 081 



Laborers and charwomen 499 



Total 3,789 



CLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE. 



Number of employees in the classified civil service 2, 371 



Number of persons excepted from the requirements of examination and 

 certification in the classified civil service, including, also, the number 

 unclassified . - _ 1 , 418 



Total ..--. 3,789 



EMPLOYEES IN THE DEPARTMENT WHOSE APPOINTMENT PRECEDES 



JULY 2, 1887. 



The table on the next page gives the names of employees on the 

 rolls of the U. S. Department of Agriculture on July 1, 1902, the date 

 of whose appointment precedes Jul)' 2, 1887, covering a period of fif- 

 teen years or more, and the date of the appointment Of each, respec- 

 tively, but not including persons in the Weather Bureau. 



