Crop Report for the Month of July, 1910. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1910. 



In this third crop report for the current year, for the 

 month of July, will be found an article on " Alfalfa in Mas- 

 sachusetts," by Prof. Win. P. Brooks, Director of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. There seems to 

 be a general interest in this crop, as shown by the number 

 of inquiries we have received during the past few years in 

 regard to it. It is for the purpose of guiding those who are 

 thinking of trying to introduce alfalfa on their farms aright, 

 showing them the conditions of soil, fertilization, clean cul- 

 ture, and so on, which are absolutely essential to success, that 

 this article is written. Professor Brooks has had considerable 

 experience with alfalfa in the experiments conducted by the 

 Massachusetts station, and speaks, therefore, with authority. 

 That this valuable crop may succeed in some sections and 

 under some conditions in Massachusetts there is no question. 

 What these conditions are is well explained in this article, 

 and for that reason it must be particularly valuable to those 

 who are thinking of undertaking to establish alfalfa on 

 their farms. 



Peogress of the Season. 



The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture (Crop Re- 

 porter for July, 1010) gives the preliminary estimate of corn 

 ])lanted as 114,083,000 acres, an increase of 5,132,000 acres 

 (4.0 per cent) as compared with the final estimate of last 

 year's acreage. The average condition of the crop on July 1 

 was 85.4, as compared with 80.3 on July 1, 1009, 82.8 on 

 July 1, 1008, and 85.1, the ten-year average on July 1. 



The average condition of winter wheat on July 1, or when 

 harvested, was 81.5, as compared with 80 last month, 82.4 

 at harvest in 1000, 80.0 in 1008, and 81.3, the average at 



