Crop Eeport for the Month of September, 1898. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Oct. 1, 1898. 



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

 is herewith presented. We desire to call the particular 

 attention of our readers to the article on " Milk and Cream," 

 by J. B. Lindsey, Ph.D., chemist Department of Foods and 

 Feeding, Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College. 



Progress of the Season. 



The September returns of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture (Crop Circular for September, 1897) give 

 the condition of corn on September 1 as 84.1. This is 2.9 

 points lower than last month, 4.8 points higher than on 

 Sept. 1, 1897, 6.9 points lower than on Sept. 1, 1896, and 

 eight-tenths of a point above the mean of the September 

 averages of the last ten years. 



The average condition of wheat when harvested was 86.7, 

 or 1 point higher than was reported on Sept. 1, 1897, 12.1 

 points higher than at the corresponding date in 1896, and 

 5.1 points above the mean of the September averages of the 

 last ten years. 



The average condition of the oat crop when harvested was 

 79, against 84.6 reported Sept. 1, 1897, 74 at the corre- 

 sponding period in 1896, and the September mean of 80.8 

 for the last ten years. 



The average condition of barley was 79.2, as compared 

 with 86.4 reported Sept. 1, 1897, 83.1 at the corresponding 

 period in 1896, and the September mean for the last ten 

 years of 84.8. The low average condition is due to the 

 failure of the crop in California, which is the principal 

 barley-producing State of the country. 



