The acreage under rye showed a reduction of 1.9 per cent 

 from that harvested last year. The average condition of rye 

 was 93.9, as compared with 87.6 on June 1, 1900, 84.5 at 

 the corresponding date in 1899, and a ten-year average of 

 89.4. 



The acreage and condition of clover could not be definitely 

 and satisfactorily determined, but would seem to approxi- 

 mate, on the whole, very closely to the averages of the last 

 ten years. 



The average condition of the apple crop was, on the whole, 

 favorable, though in some of the larger producing States the 

 condition is somewhat below their ten-year average. Of the 

 fourteen States having 3,000,000 or upward apple trees at 

 the last census, three report conditions below their ten-year 

 averages, one was the same, and the others were above. It 

 is probable that more than an average crop will be produced 

 in the remaining States and Territories. 



The prospects of the peach crop were highly favorable, 

 the condition being above the average in every important 

 peach-growing State, with the exception of California, in 

 which there was a falling off of 13 points from the ten-year 

 average of 83. 



The acreage of rice has been somewhat reduced, except in 

 Louisiana, in which there was an increase of 12 per cent, and 

 in Texas a very large increase of approximately 125 per 

 cent. The condition was generally equal or above the ten- 

 year average. 



The total estimated area planted in cotton is 27,532,000 

 acres, an increase of 2,111,000, or 8.3 per cent, over the 

 acreage planted last year, and of 2,498,000, or 10 per cent, 

 over the acreage actually picked. The average condition of 

 the growing crop June 1 was 81.5, as against 82.5 last year, 

 85.7 in 1899, and 86.4, the mean of the June averages of 

 the last ten years. The condition Avas the lowest, with one 

 exception, of any June condition in twenty years. 



In Massachusetts the acreage of rye as compared with last 

 year was given as 98, and the average condition June 1 as 

 101 ; the acreage of oats as 94, and the condition as 95 ; the 

 acreage of barley as 90, and the condition as 86 ; the acre- 

 age of clover as 99, and the condition as 103 ; the average 



