Ceop Report for the Month of August, 1904. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Sept. 1, l'J04. 



Bulletin Xo. 4, Crop Report for the month of August, is 

 presented herewith. Attention is called to the article at the 

 close of the Bulletin on "Harvesting and Marketing Apples, " 

 by Prof. F. A. Waugh, professor of hortieultiu"e at the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural College. As this is the ' ' apple year " 

 in Massachusetts something on this subject was thought to 

 be desirable, and this crop report, appearing just before apple 

 harvest commences, a desirable medium for oivino- it out. 

 Professor Waugh does not attempt to go into the details of 

 all processes in harvesting, handling and marketing the 

 apple crop, the space allotted him not being sufficient, but 

 he covers the principal points in an illuminating manner 

 and the article should contain many new ideas for those who 

 do not make orcharding their princi})al business, but with 

 whom the apple crop is nevertheless of considerable impor- 

 tance. His suggestions in regard to the selling of the crop 

 and as to the crop of the present year should be of especial 

 value. 



Proc4ress of the Season. 



The monthly report of the Chief of the Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics of the United States Department of x\griculture (Crop 

 Reporter for August, 1904) shows the condition of corn on 

 August 1 to have been 87.3, as compared with 86.4 a month 

 earlier, 78.7 on August 1, 1903, 86.5 at the corresponding 

 date in 1902, and a ten-year August average of 83.5. 



Preliminary returns indicate a winter wheat crop of about 

 333,400,000 bushels, or an average of 12.3 bushels per acre, 

 as compared with 12.3 bushels last year, as finally estimated. 

 The average condition of spring wheat on August 1 was 

 87.5, as compared with 93.7, a month earlier, 77.1 (m the 



