Crop Report for the Month of October, 1909. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1909. 



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

 presented as the final issue of the season. Our thanks are 

 tendered to the corps of correspondents who have so faith- 

 fully made the returns to us, from month to month, which 

 have enabled us to make up these records of the growing 

 season. Their co-operation when the work is resumed in 

 1910 is looked for with confidence. 



The special articles printed this year have been: Bulletin 

 No. 1, " The farmer's interest in game protection," by Ed- 

 ward Howe Eorbush ; Bulletin No. 2, " Economy of labor 

 in poultry keeping on farms," by John IT. Robinson ; Bul- 

 letin No. 3, " Live Stock in Massachusetts," by Prof. J. A. 

 Foord ; Bulletin No. 4, " Western methods in New England 

 orcharding," by Prof. F. C. Sears ; and Bulletin No. 5, " The 

 culture of the pear," by George T. Powell. The supply of 

 all these bulletins, except Bulletin No. 5, is exhausted, but 

 we shall have reprints of the special articles next summer, 

 and will send them to any who may desire it. The demand 

 for the August bulletin was such that we felt obliged to 

 reprint Professor Sears's article on " Western methods in 

 New England orcharding " at once, and we consequently 

 have an ample supply of this excellent essay on hand. 



The article for this month does not deal with any farm 

 crop or problem, but is none the less important. It is on 

 " The farm census of 1910," by Whitman Osgood, Special 

 Agent, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D. C. The im- 

 portance of accurate statistics on farm property and crops 

 cannot be overestimated. This article is printed with a view 

 to enabling the farmers to prepare for the questions which 

 will be asked by the enumerators in the spring of 1910, so 



