390 Eighth Annual Report of the 



SAMPLE COPY OF THE CROP BULLETIN OF THE NEW 

 YORK STATE WEATHER BUREAU, ISSUED WEEKLY 

 DURING THE CROP SEASON, IN CO-OPERATION WITH 

 THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 WEATHER BUREAU. 



^'ol. A'lII. For the week ending Saturday, June 6, 1896. No. 7. 



Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y., Jane 9, 1896. 



Thd following information is condensed from the reports of crop 

 'Correspondents for the week ending Saturday^ June 6, 1896: 



Albany County (Albany). — Home strawberries in market. 

 Some injury to grapes by insects. Rain, 0.69. 



Allegany County (Bolivar). — Grass looksi better since the rainS;, 

 but crop will be very light. Oldi meadows very light. Apples 

 looking well. Rain, 1.11. 



Broome' Counity (Chenango Forks). — A majority of old meadows 

 have been ploiwed up amd sown to corn and millet. Paisturage 

 ver;^ poor. 



Cattaraugus County (Humphrey). — Oats on fall plowing look 

 fine, but oin spring plowing riather weak and uneven. Wonns 

 working in oats in places. Corn looks pale and sickly. Grass 

 nearly all daisies and weeds. Frosts and the recent drouth killed 

 nearly all old imeadows. New seeding rather thin. Rain, 1.19. 

 Little Valley — Light hay crop even with favorable weather, as 

 drouth, frosts and grasshoppers of last two; j^ears have perma- 

 nently injured all old meadows' andi moist pastures. Some new 

 seeded fwill be good. Rain, 0.20. Olean — Apples good. Not 

 many cherries or plums. Grain never looked b('tt<'r. Grass is 

 variable; high land meadows and old meadows generally 'very 

 poor, and nnicli new seeding is also very light, but some well 

 cared for amd top drc.^lscd after last culiting \\\\\ ])ii()tluci.' exicOl- 

 lently. 



