Crop Eeport foe the MOxXth of October, 

 1904. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1!I04. 



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

 presented as the final issue of the season. We wish to thank 

 our correspondents for their free and faithful assistance, 

 through which we have been able to publish these reports, 

 and trust that they will all be able to serve us in the same 

 manner another year. 



The special articles printed this year have been : Bulletin 

 No. 1, "The hay crop in Massachusetts," by Prof. Wm. P. 

 Brooks; Bulletin No. 2, " The growing of mushrooms," by 

 Dr. Geo. E. Stone; Bulletin No. 3, "The gypsy and 

 brown-tail moths," by A. H. Kirkland, M.S. ; Bulletin No. 

 4, "Harvesting and marketing apples," by Prof. F. A. 

 Waugh; Bulletin No. 5, " Breeds for the farm and farmers 

 as poultry breeders," by John H. Robinson. 



We wish to call attention to the article at the close of this 

 bulletin on "Bee keeping; how to meet its dangers and 

 difficulties," by Burton N. Gates. This article is in a 

 measure supplementarj^ to that published last year on the 

 pleasures and profits of bee keeping, and contains informa- 

 tion of great practical value to all those interested in bees. 



Progress of the Season. 

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

 tistics of the United States Department of Agriculture (Crop 

 Reporter for Octol)er, 1904) shows the average condition of 

 corn October 1 to have been 83.9, as compared with 84.6 a 

 month earlier, 80.8 in 1903, 79.6 the year previous, and a 

 ten-year average of 78.3. 



