shall not be sold, and provides punishment for oflfenders. 

 For the enforcement of this law the governor is authorized 

 to appoint three members of the Board of Agriculture to 

 constitute a dairy bureau of the Board, to serve without pay. 

 The secretary of the Board is made the executive officer, and 

 the governor has authority to appoint an assistant to him. 

 The bureau is allowed to expend §4,000 annually in carrying 

 forward the work. The bureau is empowered to investigate 

 dairy and imitation dairy products bought or sold ; to enforce 

 all laws for the manufacture, transfer and sale of such prod- 

 ucts ; to investigate methods of butter and cheese making, 

 and to disseminate information in the interests of the dairy 

 industry. 



A statistical and historical article upon the subject of oleo- 

 margarine will be found printed at the end of the bulletin. 



A portion of the tobacco crop has been harvested in good 

 condition. Considerable has been sold in the field at unusu- 

 ally good prices. Favorable weather for harvesting and 

 curing is anxiously looked for by the growers. 



Crops in the market gardens around Boston are looking 

 unusually well. Celery, squashes, tomatoes, etc., promise 

 to be good crops. The pear crop throughout the State is 

 very large. 



Report No. 87 of the Statistician of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture gives the following figures of 

 estimated condition of crops in Massachusetts Aug. 1, 1891 : 

 Average condition of corn, 97 ; average condition of spring 

 rye, 97 ; average condition of oats, 9H ; average condition of 

 barley, 94 ; average condition of buckwheat, 99 ; average 

 condition of potatoes, 99 ; average condition of tobacco, 99 ; 

 average condition of timothy hay, 86 ; product of clover 

 compared with a full crop, 82 ; average quality of clover 

 bay, 100 standing for high quality, 91 ; average condition of 

 pasture, 100; average condition of apples, 70; average con- 

 dition of peaches, 69 ; average condition of grapes, 95. 



CONDITION OF CHOPS IN THIS SECTION. 

 From United States Weather-Crop Bulletins. 

 Week ending August 7. — New England : The weather 

 has been too cool for hay and the grain harvest, and also for 



