Crop Eeport for the Month of May, 1901. 



Office State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., June 1, 1901. 



Bulletin No. 1, Crop Report for the month of May, the 

 first of our current series of monthly crop bulletins, is here- 

 with presented. The general plan of issue of these bulletins 

 will not vary much from that of former years, and we shall, 

 as in the past, endeavor to place the bulletins in the hands 

 of our readers on as near the date of issue as possible. An 

 article by some scientist of reputation or some practical 

 agriculturist of wide experience will be included in each 

 issue. This bulletin contains an article on " Three common 

 orchard scales," by H. T. Fernald, Ph.D., professor of 

 entomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, which 

 we would commend to the attention of our readers. 



„ Progress of the Season. 



The May returns of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture (Crop Reporter for May, 1900) show the area 

 under winter wheat in cultivation on that date to have been 

 about 28,267,000 acres. This is 2,015,000 acres, or 6.7 per 

 cent, less than the area sown last fall, but 2,032,000 acres, 

 or 7.7 per cent, in excess of the acreage harvested last year. 

 For the area remaining under cultivation the average condi- 

 tion was 94.1, as compared with 88.9 on May 1 of last year, 

 76.2 in 1899, and 83.6, the mean of the averages of the last 

 ten years. 



The average condition of winter rye on May 1 was 94.6, 

 as compared with 93.1 on April 1, 85.5 on May 1 of last 

 year, 85.2 in 1899, and 89.2, the mean of the May averages 

 of the last ten years. The present condition is the highest 

 since 1891. 



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