CROP REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, 1893. 



Office State Board of Agriculture, 



Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1893. 



This issue of the Crop Report, Bulletin No. 6, will be the 

 last for the present year. It is hoped, and indeed expected, 

 that the work will be continued another season along much 

 the same lines as heretofore. To our correspondents we 

 wish to express our sincere thanks for the returns they have 

 sent us and the well sustained interest in the work which 

 they have generally manifested. We look forward to next 

 season with the belief that we shall then receive equally 

 cheerful and active assistance. 



With this number the sixth season of the issue of monthly 

 crop reports is completed. The bulletins of the present 

 year have been mainly occupied with the notes of corre- 

 spondents, our deductions from the same, statistics and re- 

 marks concerning the weather, and synopses of the monthly 

 reports of the Statistician of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. Lack of funds has compelled us to omit the short 

 articles treating of special subjects which have been among 

 the features of former years. If with another season funds 

 are available these will, in all probability, be resumed. 



Progress of the Season. 



In Report No. 109 (October, 1893) the Statistician of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture gives the October 

 condition of corn as 75.1, against 76.7 for last month and 

 79.8 for October, 1892. This falling off in condition is due 

 to the drought, which continued from June to the latter part 

 of September and was most severe in the principal corn-pro- 

 ducing States. The average condition has fallen every 

 month since the July report, when it stood at 93.2. Frost 

 has caused but little d:image and that only in the Northern 

 and Western States. The rate of yield varies greatly owing 

 to the varying condition of the soil in different localities, 

 when the corn was planted, and when the drought struck it. 



For wheat a yield of about 11.3 bushels is indicated, 



