The Department of Agriculture is an amazing racket. It’s a wonder we have anything to eat at all.
Sometimes I think most of these jobs were dreamed up by some poor slob who got stuck with a summer intern.
"Please to meet you Mr Local Bigwigs Offspring! You are going to be the head of our goat counting program. Yep, you will be out in the field all summer. No, don't bother to come in, just send your reports in by mail."
But of course you have to write up a report justifying the assignment and it gets entered into the SOP and the next thing you know some dam fool wants you to count cows too. So you have to hire some one for that, then you have to hire someone to file the reports and the next thing you know you have 50 people running around counting things when all you wanted was a little peace and quiet so you could work on the Great Horned Tobacco Worm infestation.