Crop Eeport for the Month of June, 1910. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., July 1, 1910. 



With this report for June, the second issue of the season, 

 the crop reporting work of the year enters upon the season 

 of the greatest change and development in farm crops. The 

 period of planting and germination has passed, while that 

 of harvesting has not begun, except in the case of a few 

 very early market-garden crops and fruits and berries. 



During the past year or more this Board has had a 

 great many inquiries as to methods of growing asparagus, 

 which we have been unable to answer as we had no litera- 

 ture on the subject. To meet this demand we have arranged 

 for an article on " Growing and marketing asparagus," by 

 Mr. Frank Wheeler of Concord, Mass., which appears at 

 the close of this issue. Mr. Wheeler is counted by many as 

 the best grower of asparagus in the State, and he has cer- 

 tainly prepared a very valuable article on the subject, in- 

 tensely practical and without rhetorical embellishments, but 

 containing a great deal of information on those points of 

 interest which relate to the practice of growing a crop rather 

 than to the scientific side of the question. 



Peogeess of the Season. 

 The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture estimates 

 the area sown in spring wheat to be about 19,742,000 acres, 

 or 1,349,000 acres (7.3 per cent) more than that sown last 

 year. The condition of spring wheat on June 1 was 92.8, 

 as compared with 95.2 on June 1, 1909, 95 in 1908, and 

 93, the June average of the past ten years. The condition 

 of winter wheat on June 1, was 80, as compared with 82.1 



