Excerpt from Nineteenth Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, Vol. 1: For the Year Ending September 30, 1911 The efficiency of the Department of Agriculture has been steadily increasing, and it is highly creditable to the State. During the last three years a system of securing efficiency reports of employees has been adopted, under which there is kept in the Commissioner's office a record showing the status of the various employees in respect to different subjects on which they need to be judged. These records have been used in making promotions. A small proportion of the employees are engaged constantly in one or two given lines of work, but most of those in the field are changed from one kind of work to another, as conditions require. For example, agents in the field are employed at different times in taking samples of food, examining food labels, taking milk samples, making sanitary inspections of dairy establishments, taking samples of feeding stuffs and fertilizers, giving attention to rabies quarantines, etc. The effectiveness of the work of field men has been greatly increased by the adoption of a system of daily reports. Each agent and inspector is required to fill out and mail to the Department a report showing the kind or kinds of work engaged in daily. A form like the following is used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.