1903, 97.1 at the corresponding date in 1902, and an eight- 

 year average of 84.5. 



The average condition of rice on August 1 was 90.2, as 

 compared with 88.2 a niontli earlier and 92 in 1903. 



In Massachusetts the average condition of corn was 92 ; 

 the average condition of oats 98, and the proportion of the 

 crop of 1903 still in farmers' hands 3.5 per cent ; the average 

 condition of spring rye 98 ; the acreage of buckwheat as 

 compared with last year 115, and the average condition 97 ; 

 the average condition of tobacco 97 ; the average condition 

 of potatoes 101 ; the acreage of hay compared with last year 

 101 ; the average condition of timothy hay 100 ; the pro- 

 duction of clover as compared with a full crop 96, and the 

 quality, 100 standing for high, 99 ; the average condition of 

 pasture as 100 ; the average condition of apples as 97 ; and 

 the average condition of grapes as 92. 



Tesiperature axd Rainfall for the Whole Country. 



[Fkom United States Climate and Chop Bulletins.] 



Week ending August 1. — The week was slightly warmer 

 than usual over the greater part of New England and in 

 portions of the northern and southern Pacific coast districts, 

 the average daily departures from normal temperatures being 

 less than 3°. Nearly normal temperatures prevailed in the 

 middle Pacific coast districts and over the Rocky Mountain 

 slope and much of the Lake region. From the upper Lake 

 region westward to central Montana and south-eastern Idaho 

 and generally throughout the Southern States, the week 

 averaged cooler than usual, the deficiency ranging from 3° 

 to (P per day over the greater part of the South Atlantic 

 and Gulf States. The rainfall of the week was verv un- 

 equally distributed in the districts east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, but for the most part was ample for the needs of grow- 

 ing crops, being excessive in portions of the central valleys 

 and the Southern States. In the northern portion of the 

 central Gulf States, along the immediate Atlantic coast 

 northward of the Carolinas, and over a considerable part of 

 the Ohio and Missouri valleys and the lower Lake region 

 the rainfall \vas below the average. The southern Plateau 



