Crop Eeport for the Month of September, 1910. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Oct. 1, 1910. 



Bulletin 'No. 5, being Crop Report for the month of Sep- 

 tember, is herev/ith presented. With the harvests well in 

 progress it is now possible to determine approximately the 

 results for most farm crops. The question in regard to frost 

 damage would not have been asked if we could have fore- 

 casted weather conditions at the time of preparing the cir- 

 cular to correspondents, but these data are of course inter- 

 esting. The special article is on '' Quince culture," and is 

 furnished by Prof. F. C. Sears, professor of pomology at the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College. This fruit is consider- 

 ably neglected and not of the first importance, but this article 

 supplements those published in former years on peach, plum 

 and pear culture. It is planned to collect this material, with 

 other lectures of value, into a bulletin on small fruits, and 

 berries, which we hope to issue very shortly. 



Progress of the Season. 



The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture (Crop Reporter 

 for September, 1910) estimates the average condition of corn 

 on September 1 to have been 78.2, as compared with 79.3 a 

 month earlier, 74.6 in 1909, 79.4 in 1908, and a ten-year 

 average of 79.5. 



The average condition of spring wheat when harvested was 

 63.1, as compared with 61 on August 1, 88.6 when harvested 

 in 1909, 77.6 in 1908, and a ten-year average of 78. 



The average condition of barley when harvested was 69.8, 

 against 70 on August 1, 80.5 when harvested in 1909, 81.2 

 in 1908, and a ten-year average of 83.1. 



The average condition of the oat crop when harvested was 



