Ckop Eeport for the Month of June. 1901. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., July 1, 1901. 



Bulletin No. 2, Crop Report for the month of June, is 

 presented herewith. We desire to call the attention of our 

 readers to the article at the close of the bulletin, on " A Lesson 

 in Economics : what the Agriculture of the Twentieth Cent- 

 ury demands," by Dr. George M. Twitchell, editor of the 

 " Maine Farmer." Dr. Twitchell has given this subject much 

 careful thought, and the result cannot but be helpful to every 

 one, in pointing out places where savings can be made which 

 may make all the difference between profit and loss. 



Progress of the Season. 



Preliminary reports to the United States Department of 

 Agriculture (Crop Reporter for June, 1901) indicate a re- 

 duction of about 1,200,000 acres, or 6.4 per cent, in the 

 acreage of spring wheat. The average condition of spring 

 wheat on June 1 was 92, as compared with 87.3 last year, 

 91.4 in June, 1899, and 92.6, the mean of the averages of 

 the last ten years. The average condition of winter wheat 

 declined during May 6.3 points, the condition on June 1 

 being 87.8, as against 94.1 a month earlier, 82.7 last year, 

 67.3 in 1899, and 81.2, the mean of the June averages of the 

 last ten years. 



The total reported acreage of oats was smaller than the 

 acreage harvested last year by 3.8 per cent. The average 

 condition of oats was 85.3, against 91.7 last year, 88.7 in 

 1899, and a ten-year average of 90. 



The acreage reported as under barley is 1.2 per cent 

 smaller than the area harvested last year. The average con- 

 dition of barley was 91, against 86.2 last year, 91.4 in 1899, 

 and a ten-year average of 88.5. 



