Crop Eeport for the Month of October, 1897. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1897. 



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

 is herewith presented as the final issue for this season. It is 

 hoped that this work has been of value to the recipients of 

 the bulletins. Hoping and believing this to be the case, we 

 expect to take up this line of work again in the spring of 

 1898. We desire to extend the sincere thanks of the office 

 to all our correspondents who have so kindly aided us by 

 their reports, and shall expect a renewal of their kind offices 

 another season. 



The special articles printed this season have been as fol- 

 lows : Bulletin No. 1, "Small Fruits in the Home Gar- 

 den," by Prof. S. T. Maynard ; Bulletin No. 2, "Three 

 Shade-tree Insects," by A. H. Kirkland, M. S. ; Bulletin 

 No. 3, " Why Milk sours, and how the Souring can be pre- 

 vented or at least delayed," by Geo. M. Whitaker, A.M. ; 

 Bulletin No. 4, " Systematic Feeding and Watering as a 

 Preventative of Disease in Horses," by Dr. Jas. B. Paige ; 

 and Bulletin No. 5, "Massachusetts Weeds," by Dr. G. E. 

 Stone. Having been unable to secure a satisfactory article 

 for this month's issue, we have been obliged, much to our 

 regret, to omit this feature in the present instance. 



Progress of the Season. 



Report No. 153 (October, 1897) of the Statistician of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture gives the general 

 condition of corn as 77.1, as compared with 79.3 in Sep- 

 tember, 90.5 a year ago, and 82.5, the October average for 

 the last ten years. 



