Crop Eepoet for the Month of August, 1910. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Sept. 1, 1910. 



Bulletin Xo. 4 for the current year, Crop Report for the 

 month of August, is herewith presented. The time has 

 arrived when estimates of condition for most farm crops 

 can be relied on as fairly forecasting the final results, mak- 

 ing this bulletin particularly interesting. An article is in- 

 cluded on " Celery growing, storing and marketing," by 

 Henry M. Howard of West jSTewton, Mass. Mr. Howard is 

 a young man who has made a great success in market gar- 

 dening, and is fully posted on the subject of celery produc- 

 tion and handling. The article is plain and common-sense 

 in its treatment, and full of valuable matter for any one who 

 is either contemplating introducing this crop or at present 

 engaged in its production. 



Peogress of the Seasois". 



The Crop Eeporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture (Crop Re- 

 porter for July, 1910) estimates that the average condition 

 of corn on August 1 was Y9.3, as coinj)ared with 85.4 last 

 month, 84.4 on Aug. 1, 1909, and 82.1, the ten-year average. 



Preliminary returns indicate a winter wheat yield of about 

 15.8 bushels per acre, or a total of about 458,294,000, as 

 compared with 15.8 and 446,366,000 bushels, respectively, 

 as finally estimated last year. The average quality of the 

 crop is 92.6, against 90.3 last year. The average condition 

 of spring wheat on August 1 was 61, as compared with 

 61.6 last month, 91.6 on Aug. 1, 1909, and 81.9, the ten- 

 year average on August 1. 



The average condition of the oat crop on August 1 was 

 81.5, as compared with 82.2 a month earlier, 85.5 on Aug. 1, 



