Ceop Eeport for the Month of September, 190L 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Oct. 1, 1901. 



Bulletin No. 5, Crop Report for the month of September, 

 is herewith presented. We desire to call the particular at- 

 tention of our readers to the article on " Irrigation in Humid 

 Climates," by Prof. C. S. Phelps, agriculturist at the Storrs 

 (Connecticut) Agricultural Experiment Station, which is 

 printed at the close of the bulletin. 



Progress of the Season. 



The September report of the statistician of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture (Crop Reporter for Sep- 

 tember, 1901) gives the condition of corn on September 1 

 as 51.7. There was a decline durino; August amountino; to 

 2.3 points, and the condition on the first of the month was 

 28.9 points lower than last year, 33.5 points lower than in 

 1899, 31 points below the mean of the September averages 

 of the last ten years, and 8.3 points below the lowest Sep- 

 tember average ever before recorded. 



The average condition at harvest of winter and spring 

 wheat combined was 82.8, against Q9.6 last year, 70.9 in 

 1899, and a ten-year average of 80.3. 



The average condition of oats when harvested was 72.1, 

 against 82.9 last year, 87.2 in 1899, and a ten-year average 

 of 81.6. 



The average condition of barley when harvested was 83.8, 

 against 70.7 last year, 86.7 in 1899, and 83.1, the mean of 

 the September averages of the last ten years. 



The condition at harvest of winter and spring rye combined 

 was 84.9, against 84.2 last year, and 86.4, the mean of the 

 averages of the last ten years. 



The average condition of buckwheat on September 1 was 

 90.9, as compared with 91.1 a month ago, 80.5, on September 



