Ceop Eeport for the Month of October, 1901. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass , Nov. 1, 1901. 



Bulletin No. 6, Crop Report 'for the month of October, is 

 herewith presented as the final issue of the season. We wish 

 to again thank our correspondents for the assistance they have 

 so freely and faithfully given us, and to solicit the continu- 

 ance of their assistance another spring, if this work is con- 

 tinued, as we have every reason to believe it will be. 



The special articles printed this season have been : Bulle- 

 tin No. 1, " Three common orchard scales," by Prof. H. T. 

 Fernald ; Bulletin No. 2, " A lesson in economics ; what the 

 agriculture of the twentieth century demands," by Dr. G. M. 

 Twitchell ; Bulletin No. 3, " Selection and improvement of 

 dairy herd," by Prof. F. S. Cooley ; Bulletin No. 4, " Poul- 

 try keeping as a principal feature of diversified farming," by 

 John H. Robinson ; and Bulletin No. 5, " Irrigation in humid 

 climates," by Prof. C. S. Phelps. Particular attention is 

 called to the article on "Cranberry culture in south-eastern 

 Massachusetts," by John Bursley, member of the State Board 

 of Agriculture, representing the Barnstable County Agricultu- 

 ral Society, which will be found printed at the close of the 

 bulletin. 



Progress of the Season. 



The October report of the statistician of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture (Crop Reporter for October, 

 1901) gives the average condition of corn on October 1 as 

 52.1, as compared with 51.7 a month earlier, 78.2 on the 

 corresponding date last year, 82.7 in 1899, and 81.8, the 

 mean of the October averages of the last ten years. This is 

 the lowest October average ever recorded, the lowest here- 

 tofore being 64.2, on Oct. 1, 1894. 



The preliminary estimate of the yield per acre of oats was 

 25.1 bushels, as compared with 29.6 bushels last year, 30.7 



