REPORT.

The working divisions of the Department are as follows:

First Division-Comprising the following counties: Albany, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie and Washington.

Second Division-Comprising the following counties: Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk and one-half of Westchester.

Third Division-Comprising the following counties: Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and one-half of Westchester.

Fourth Division-Comprising the following counties: Essex, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oswego, Oneida and Warren.

Fifth Division-Comprising the following counties: Clinton, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence.

Sixth Division-Comprising the following counties: Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Tioga and Tompkins. Seventh Division-Comprising the following counties: Chemung, Genesee, Livingston, Schuyler, Steuben and Wyoming. Eighth Division-Comprising the following counties: Cayuga, Monroe, Ontario, Seneca, Wayne and Yates.

Ninth Division-Comprising the following counties: Erie, Niagara and Orleans.

Tenth Division-Comprising the following counties: Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua.

For the purpose of the general working of the Department, the State is divided into ten divisions, each division being in

charge of an assistant commissioner of agriculture who is responsible directly to the commissioner of agriculture for the enforcement of the Agricultural Law within his respective territory. The agents and employees of this Department working in each of such divisions are under the supervision of, and responsible to, the assistant commissioner in charge of the division. A report of the work in each division is made by the assistant commissioner annually to this office, while weekly and monthly reports are made by the agents or employees working in each of such divisions to the assistant commissioner, which reports, when approved by that official, are forwarded to this office by him. The personnel of the appointments and employees of the Department are as follows:

C. A. WIETING, Commissioner.

G. L. Flanders... .Assistant Commissioner, First Division.
F. J. H. Kracke......Assistant Commissioner, Second Division.
E. J. Preston
. Assistant Commissioner, Third Division.

T. James Owens...... Assistant Commissioner, Fourth Division.
S. Brown Richardson ..Assistant Commissioner, Fifth Division.

.Assistant Commissioner, Sixth Division. .Assistant Commissioner, Seventh Division. .Assistant Commissioner, Eighth Division. .Assistant Commissioner, Ninth Division. ..Assistant Commissioner, Tenth Division.

Elizabeth A. Dowd..

Alice B. Rossman

Head Bookkeeper.

Bookkeeper.

.Assistant Bookkeeper.

. Confidential Clerk.

Stenographer.

Stenographer.

. Stenographer.