Crop Eepoet for the Moxth of August, 1911. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1911. 



The issue for the present month, August crop report, con- 

 tains the concluding article of our series on vegetable crops. 

 In it are treated beans, corn, tomatoes, lettuce and spinach. 

 This completes all the important crops of the market garden, 

 and we shall presently collect these articles into a special 

 bulletin. Bulletin ISTo. 5 of our series of bulletins on Massa- 

 chusetts agriculture. The author of the present article, 

 Mr. Henry M. Howard of West ISTewton, has furnished us 

 with several practical and valuable articles on market- 

 garden crops, and is a thoroughly practical vegetable grower. 



Progress of the Season. 

 The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics of 

 the United States Department of Agi-iculture, in Crop Re- 

 porter for July, 1911, give their estimates as to acreage and 

 condition of the principal farm crops of the country in the 

 following table : — 



