Crop Report for the MOx\th of July, 1904. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1904. 



Bulletin Xo. 3, Crop Report for the month of Juh', is 

 herewith presented. Attention is called to the article at the 

 close of the report on "The Gyps}^ and Brown-tail ]\Ioths," 

 by A. H. Kirkland, M.S., formerly assistant entomologist to 

 this Board, and, at the close of the work against the gypsy 

 moth, acting field director. These pests have secured such a 

 foothold in this Commonwealth, and are spread over so wide 

 an area, that many recjuests for instruction as to their life 

 history, habits and the means of destroying them have been 

 received at this office. We have an excellent report on the 

 brown-tail moth, giving full details on these points, but 

 nothing on the gypsy moth giving methods of combating it, 

 so it has been thought best to put out this information 

 through the agency of the Crop Report. Mr. Kirkland has 

 been in close touch with the conditions in the infested terri- 

 tor}^ since the gypsy moth work of this Board came to an 

 end, and for that reason is in a position to give more infor- 

 mation in regard to these particular pests than any other 

 person. 



Proghess of the Season. 



Preliminary returns to the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture (Crop 

 Reporter for July, 1904) show the acreage of corn planted 

 to be about 91,930,000 acres, an increase of about 2,130,000 

 acres, or 2.4 per cent, on the area planted last year, as re- 

 vised in December. The average condition of the growing- 

 crop July 1 was 8(1.4, as compared with 79.4 on July 1, 

 1903, 87.5 at the corres})onding date in 1902, and a ten-year 

 average of 88.4. 



