per cent of the normal. High conditions, however, prevail 

 on the Pacific coast. 



There are few important peach-growing sections of the 

 country that do not report this crop as considerably below 

 the normal. Delaware and eastern Maryland, it is reported, 

 will have but one-tenth of a crop. Of the States that pro- 

 duced one million bushels or upward at the last United States 

 census, Arkansas, Missouri and California are the only ones 

 that will reach this year even so much as four-fifths of a crop. 



There are very few extensive apple-producing States 

 whose reported conditions indicate more than one-half to 

 three-fourths of a normal crop, and generally the inclination 

 is toward the lower rather than the higher average. Not 

 only is the yield much below the average, but, exceptin a 

 few States, the quality of the fruit is decidedly inferior. 



The reports on the grape crop are in the main fairly sat- 

 isfactory, the principal grape-producing regions, both of the 

 east, the middle west and the Pacific coast, reporting excel- 

 lent prospects. In the south the crop is more or less 

 abundant, but there are serious complaints of rotting. 



In Massachusetts the average condition of corn August 1 

 is given as 78 ; the average condition of spring rye as 110 ; 

 the average condition of oats as 84 ; the average condition 

 of barley as 86 ; the acreage of buckwheat as compared 

 with last year as 95 and the condition as 92 ; the average 

 condition of potatoes as 80 ; the average condition of to- 

 bacco as 90 ; the acreage of hay as 102 : the average con- 

 dition of timothy as 89 ; the product of clover as 100 and 

 the average quality as 87 ; the average condition of pasture 

 as 105 ; and the average condition of apples as 38. 



Temperature and Rainfall for the Whole Country. 



[From United States Weathek-Crop Bulletins.] 



WeeJc ending August 2. — Week cooler than usual in 

 New England, the middle Atlantic States, the lower lake 

 region, also over the northern plateau and the Pacific coast. 

 Throughout the central valleys, on the south Atlantic coast, 

 the upper lake region and over the south-western districts 

 and the greater part of California the week was warmer than 

 usual. In the middle Atlantic States, over the greater part 



